**Acknowledgements**

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 analysis.

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1 Biospeleology and Carcinology Lab, Sustainability Development Division,

*Tropical Subterranean Ecosystems in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize: A Review of Aquatic…*

4 Spatial Observation Lab, Sustainability Development Division, University of

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

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, Oscar Frausto-Martínez<sup>4</sup>

Guillermo Ruíz-Cancino<sup>1</sup> and German Yáñez<sup>6</sup>

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Quintana Roo, Cozumel, Mexico

3 Belmopan, University of Belize, Belmopan Belize

6 Speleological Circle of Mayab, Cozumel, Mexico

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