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Marine Lava Cave Fauna: Composition, Biogeography, and Origins

1984; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 225; Issue: 4659 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.225.4659.309

1095-9203

Thomas M. Iliffe, Horst Wilkens, Jakob Parzefall, D. Jody Williams,

Marine Ecology and Invasive Species

An assemblage of endemic cavernicolous marine invertebrates, including taxa found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean of great phylogenetic age or with affinities to deep sea organisms, inhabits the Jameos del Agua cave, a sea waterflooded Holocene lava tube cave on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. This marine cave contains both relicts from Tethyan times, such as an apparently new crustacean family belonging to what had been the monotypic class Remipedia, and relicts of groups that are now common only in the deep sea as well as species that occur outside the cave.