Abstract
New data obtained during the expedition to Middle Asia (1973) essentially enlarge our knowledge of foraminifera living in underground waters. Seven new species were discovered in the wells of the Kara-Kum and Ust-Urt deserts. All of them contain cytoplasma. The wells are situated in the region of bedding of underground waters of the heightened salinity in the zone of balance of runoff and evaporation. The majority of the species described in our work like many of the species recorded from the underground waters earlier (Brodsky, 1928; Nikoljuk, 1968; Jankovskaja and Mikhalevich, 1972) belong to the genera living in coastal brackish parts of tropical seas. This fact confirms the supposition of Brodsky about the transition of the marine coastal foraminiferal fauna to underground habitats after the regression of the sea. This fauna is a part of the underground fauna called by Nalivkin (1965) “the planetar fauna of the new type”.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.8.1.15
Recommended Citation
Mikhalevich, V. I..
1976.
New data on the foraminifera of the groundwaters of Middle Asia.
International Journal of Speleology,
8: 167-175.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol8/iss1/15
