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a. The subterranean diversity in fish and crustaceans species is high in relation

c. The energy to support this diversity had a main source from outside through

d. These ecosystems are strong relationship with outside tropical environments.

This manuscript is an outcome of the Biospeleology and Carcinology Lab that has been award for several research funding PRODEP-SEP: Subterranean Biodiversity of Cozumel Island; CONACYT-258494: Molecular systematics of freshwater prawns of genus *Macrobrachium* with abbreviated larval development and their relationship with Guatemala & Belize, UQRoo: Los langostinos del género

*Macrobrachium* en México. Also the authors give thanks to those authorities to give permissions to explored and collected animals in the three countries: SEMARNAT, CONANP (Mexico); CONAP (Guatemala); Fisheries and Aquaculture Department (Belize). Special thanks are given to Friends for Conservation, and Belize Audubon Society ONG's from Belize to facilities given to explore Chiquibul and Karstic areas. The authors give thanks to those speleological groups and people that contribute to located the caves in the region as Valerio Sbordoni, Círculo Espeleológico del Mayab, and for their help in the field trip B. Flores, J. Pérez Brückweh, L.

Rodriguez, Y. Chable, E. Espadas, X. Rosales, M. Mejia, M. Mejia, J. Cupul, E. Sosa, M. Vazquez, A. Chale, S. Leal, J. M. Tejeda, and to J. Cupul for their help in the data

b. The cave decapods is the taxa with major diversity in subterranean

the carry of organic matter by bats or hydrological r egimens.

with the tropical surrounded environments.

*Natural History and Ecology of Mexico and Central America*

Mesoamerican ecosystems

Luis M. Mejía-Ortíz1,6\*, Peter Sprouse2,5, Juan C. Tejeda-Mazariegos1 , Jair Valladarez<sup>3</sup> , Oscar Frausto-Martínez<sup>4</sup> , Alejandro L. Collantes-Chavez-Costa<sup>5</sup> , Guillermo Ruíz-Cancino<sup>1</sup> and German Yáñez<sup>6</sup>

1 Biospeleology and Carcinology Lab, Sustainability Development Division, University of Quintana Roo, Cozumel, Mexico

2 Zara Environmental LLC, Manchaca, TX, USA

3 Belmopan, University of Belize, Belmopan Belize

4 Spatial Observation Lab, Sustainability Development Division, University of Quintana Roo, Cozumel, Mexico

5 Sustainability Development Division, University of Quintana Roo, Cozumel, Mexico

6 Speleological Circle of Mayab, Cozumel, Mexico

\*Address all correspondence to: luismejia@uqroo.edu.mx

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