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AMCS Reprint Series 9

Fauna of the Caves of Yucatan

A. S. Pearse

Originally Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 491, 1938
AMCS Reprint 2008

8.5 by 11 inches, 304 pages plus plates, softbound


During the summer of 1936, the editor made biological collections at 27 caves throughout the state of Yucatan. Many authors report the results in chapters that contain, in all, over 300 text figures and 8 photographic plates.


Table of Contents

1
Introduction, A. S. Pearse
19
Fungal Flora of Yucatan Caves, Frederick A. Wolf
23
Land Planarians from Yucatan, Libbie H. Hyman
33
Parasitic Flatworms from Yucatan, Horace W. Stunkard
51
Some Nematodes from the Caves of Yucatan, B. G. Chitwood
67
Leeches (Hirudinea) from Yucatan Caves, J. Percy Moore
71
Earthworms in Yucatan Caves, Grace E. Pickford
101
Arachnida of the Orders Pedipalpida, Scorpionida, and Ricinulida, Ralph V. Chamberlin and Wilton Ivie
109
A New Genus and Three New Species of False Scorpions from Yucatan Caves (Arachnida-Chelonethida), Joseph C. Chamberlin
123
Araneida from Yucatan, Ralph V. Chamberlin and Wilton Ivie
137
Acarina of Yucatan Caves, G. W. Wharton
153
Copedoda from Yucatan Caves, A. S. Pearse and C. B. Wilson
155
A New Species of Cypridopsis from Yucatan, Norma C. Furtos
159
Large Cave Crustacea of the Yucatan Peninsula, Edwin P. Creaser
165
Diplopoda from Yucatan, Ralph V. Chamberlin
183
Collembola from Yucatan Caves, Harlow B. Mills
191
New Cave-Crickets from Yucatan, with a Review of the Pentacentrinae, and Studies of the Genus Amphiacusta (Orthoptera, Gryllidae), Theodore H. Hubbell
235
A News Myrmeleonid from Yucatan, Nathan Banks
237
Insects from Yucatan Caves, A. S. Pearse with C. F. W. Muesebeck, et al.
251
Ants from the Caves of Yucatan, William Morton Wheeler
257
A Third Contribution to the Molluscan Fauna of Yucatan, J. Bequaert and W. J. Clench
261
Fishes from the Caves of Yucatan, Carl L. Hubbs
297
Some Reptilian Records from the Caves of Yucatan, Helen T. Gaige
299
Birds in Yucatan Caves, A. S. Pearse
301
Mammalia from Yucatan Caves, A. S. Pearse with Remington Kellogg

 


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