The catalogue of caves with endemic cavernicolous arthropod fauna of Romania

Abstract

The authors provide the centralized data about the Romanian caves with endemic fauna, based on all reliable bibliographic sources (as quoted in text and cited in the chapter references) and based on their research activity. The complete list of the Romanian caves with endemic cave-dwelling arthropod species identified up to the subspecies level is presented.

Keywords

• biodiversity
• protection and conservation
• endemic cave-dwelling species
• amphipoda
• copepoda
• isopoda
• diplopoda
• arachnida
• coleoptera
• collembola
• chilopoda
• romania