found: Work cat.: Thulin, B. Ecology and living conditions of groundwater fauna, 2008:abstr. (stygobiotic fauna) p. 9 (groundwater fauna; groundwater animals) p. 10 (real groundwater fauna (stygobionts); stygofauna) p. 12 ("Many of the groundwater animals occur exclusively in the groundwater (stygobionts) ... Another group of species colonise a wide range of habitats both in the groundwater and in surface waters (stygophilous species) or are exclusively surface-dwelling species occasionally transported into the groundwater by infiltrating surface water (stygoxenous species). The general term used for the animal communities of limnic subsurface waters is groundwater fauna, independent of their composition (in terms of stygobiotic, stygophilous or stygoxenous species)"; stygobiotic animals)
found: Wikipedia, Nov. 4, 2008(Stygofauna are any fauna that live within groundwater systems, such as caves and aquifers, or more specifically small, aquatic groundwater invertebrates, though terrestrial air-breathing subterranean animals are also sometimes included.)
found: Humphreys, B. Groundwater fauna, 2006, via WWW, viewed Nov. 4, 2008(Groundwater fauna, or stygofauna, comprise the animals that live in underground water. It is made up predominantly of many kinds of crustaceans but includes worms, snails, insects, other invertebrate groups, and, in Australia, two species of blind fish.)
found: Groundwater - an unknown habitat, via WWW, viewed Nov. 4, 2008("... groundwater is a habitat for a diverse fauna that evolved special features for life within the dark interstices between the grains of sand. Refering to the River Styx the invertebrates which spend their whole lifes in subsurface waters are called stygobionts. They are found not only in porous groundwater aquifers of river valleys but also in karstic areas where caves of different sizes may be found. Stygobionts are able to penetrate into man made habitats such as wells and slow sand filters.")
found: Pandourski, I. Stygofauna of the fresh waters in Bulgaria, in Biogeography and ecology of Bulgaria, c2007, via WWW, viewed Nov. 4, 2008:p. 535 (stygobiotic animals; stygobionts)
