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An overview of the cave and interstitial biota of Croatia was assembled from available literature data, museum collections and from numerous notes made in various field researches of the present authors and published as Supplementum 1of Natura Croatica Vol. 11.
This Overview provides data on Croatian underground biodiversity and a taxonomic basis for further monographic publications of Underground Biota and extended activities, such as developing a Croatian Biospeleological Database and the preparation of The Cave Type Localities Atlas of Croatian Fauna.
As previous review - Croatia - of similar subject matter published in the III Vol. of Encyclopaedia Biospeologica was printed in rather limited number of copies an effort was done to make an extended monograph more available to regional and international scientists, to applied scientists and society in general. The present Overview emerged as the result of this effort as a supplement enlarged and improved with many new data included (such as: additional records for some species, records on new species, Checklists, updated systematics and classification of the numerous groups of organisms, colour photographs etc.).
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Reference: Gottstein Matočec, S. (ed.), Bakran-Petricioli, T., Bedek, J., Bukovec, D., Buzjak, S., Franičević, M., Jalžić, B., Kerovec, M., Kletečki, E., Kralj, J., Kružić, P., Kučinić, M., Kuhta, M., Matočec, N., Ozimec, R., Rađa, T., Štamol, V., Ternjej, I. & N. Tvrtković: An overview of the cave and interstitial biota of Croatia. Nat. Croat., Vol. 11, Suppl. 1, 1–112, 2002, Zagreb.