65.8 - Stygal biocenoses

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Communities harboured by ground waters (stygon), not including those of cave waters. They are constituted by mostly small, elongated forms, in Europe principally bacteria, protozoans, turbellarians, rotifers, nematodes, copepods and amphipods.

Bibliography

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Motas, 1962; Holthuis, 1973; Botosaneanu, 1986; Iliffe, 1992; Tvrtkovic, 1996.