PROJECTS
Research in Progress
Ongoing revision of the systematics of the subterranean amphipod
genus Stygobromus, with emphasis on description of many new species
from North America, especially in the west and in Alaska, but elsewhere as well.
New species continue to show up in areas already relatively well surveyed, such
as in eastern North American caves and related groundwater habitats. A work
is in progress on Part 3 of a monographic series treating the systematics of
Stygobromus, and the target publication is Virginia Museum of Natural
History Memoirs. A database management system is also being upgraded and expanded
for species of Stygobromus.
Collaboration with Dmitry Sidorov (Laboratory of Freshwater
Hydrobiology, Vladivostok) on the redescription and biogeography of a poorly
known crangonyctid amphipod from springs near the Khor River in the Russian
Far East.
Collaboration with Valentina Iannilli (University of Rome), Ronald Vonk (University of Amsterdam) and Sandro Ruffo (Verona Natural History Museum) on descriptions of two new ingolfiellid amphipod crustaceans from subterranean waters in Mexico and Texas – the first records for this probable suborder from freshwaters in North America.