Marine lava cave fauna: composition, biogeography, and origins. Academic Article

abstract

• 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.

authors

• Iliffe, Thomas

published proceedings

• Science

altmetric score

• 97.08

author list (cited authors)

• Iliffe, T. M., Wilkens, H., Parzefall, J., & Williams, D.

citation count

• 72

complete list of authors

• Iliffe, TM||Wilkens, H||Parzefall, J||Williams, D

publication date

• July 1984

publisher

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)  Publisher

published in

• Science  Journal

keywords

• 0502 Environmental Science And Management
• 0602 Ecology

PubMed Central ID

• 17749560

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1126/science.225.4659.309

start page

• 309

end page

• 311

volume

• 225

issue

• 4659

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.225.4659.309

user-defined tag

• 14 Life Below Water