Erosion and Infilling of Donna Cut, Northern Caicos Platform, Turks and Caicos Islands

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Saller ◽  
David Katz
Keyword(s):  
Turks And Caicos Islands

The Molasses Reef wreck, Turks and Caicos Islands, B.W.I.: A Preliminary report

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. Keith ◽  
J. A. Duff ◽  
S. R. James ◽  
T. J. Oertling ◽  
J. J. Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Turks And Caicos Islands

scholarly journals Anchialine biodiversity in the Turks and Caicos Islands: New discoveries and current faunal composition

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Brett Gonzalez ◽  
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Alejandro Martínez ◽  
Jørgen Olesen ◽  
Sarit Truskey ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
New Records ◽  
Invertebrate Fauna ◽  
Faunal Composition ◽  
Turks And Caicos Islands ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Faunal List ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Blue Holes

Lying at the southernmost point of the Lucayan Archipelago, the Turks and Caicos Islands are amongst the better studied localities for anchialine cave biodiversity. For nearly five decades, novel invertebrate fauna, comprised primarily of crustaceans, have been collected from these tidally influenced pools – but new findings are always on the horizon. Herein we present new records of crustaceans and annelids from anchialine blue holes and horizontal caves of the Turks and Caicos. These findings include two potentially new species of meiofaunal annelids and a new species of remipede collected from a shallow water cave pool. Our 2019 expedition additionally expands known faunal distributions for several taxa across the Caicos islands, and raises the biodiversity of the region to 35 species, 13 of them considered endemic. This is the first comprehensive faunal list for the anchialine systems in the Caicos Bank.

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