Stygofauna Mundi

In the spirit of 1986 Botosaneanu’s seminal book “Stygofauna Mundi”, our goal is to make distribution and evolutionary data on subterranean aquatic animal diversity* easily accessible to everyone**. Our team includes scientists from all over the world who have collaborated in gathering information published in over 20 different languages and thereby making years of groundwater, meiofauna, and cave research readily accessible for answering timely research questions.

This page is still under construction and Stygofauna Mundi is an ongoing project – So stay tuned for updates and new data.

We hope that Stygofauna Mundi will provide a framework for international collaboration, attracting more and more researchers into the dark side of animal biodiversity –  Together, we might finally get some of those answers we have been looking for and, hopefully, frame new, even more interesting, questions.