Abstract
Exploration of the subterranean tract of the spring of En-Nur (at the North end of Lake Tiberias) by scuba diving and by use of new collecting methods, led to the discovery of a living community associated with the blind prawn Typhlocaris galilea. A rich growth of sulphur bacteria and of pigmentless Cyanophyceae from the trophic basis in this peculiar biotope. Representatives of three hypogeic crustacean orders have been found as well as some peculiar gastropods, nematods and oligocaets. The latter are the main food of Typhlocaris galilea.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.3.3.3
Recommended Citation
Tsurnamal, Moshe and Francis Dov Por.
1968.
The subterranean fauna associated with the blind Palaemonid prawn Typhlocaris galilea Calman.
International Journal of Speleology,
3: 219-223.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol3/iss3/3
