Correction: Brad et al. The Chemoautotrophically Based Movile Cave Groundwater Ecosystem, a Hotspot of Subterranean Biodiversity. Diversity 2021, 13, 128

Traian Brad; Sanda Iepure; Serban M. Sarbu

doi:10.3390/d13100461

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“Emil Racovită” Institute of Speleology, Str. Clinicilor nr. 5-7, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Institutul Român de Știință și Tehnologie, Str. Virgil Fulicea nr. 3, 400022 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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“Emil Racovită” Institute of Speleology, Str. Frumoasa nr. 31, 010986 București, Romania

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Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Chico, CA 95929, USA

Diversity2021, 13(10), 461;https://doi.org/10.3390/d13100461

This article belongs to the Special Issue Hotspots of Subterranean Biodiversity

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The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper [1]. The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused and state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected.

Replacing a sentence in Section 2.2 Terrestrial fauna, on page 5:

The geophilid centipedes Geophilus sp. and Clinopodes carynthiacus are also among the predators in this ecosystem.

With

The geophilid centipedes Geophilus sp. and Clinopodes carinthiacus are also among the predators in this ecosystem.

2.: Replacing a sentence in Section 2.2 Terrestrial fauna, on page 6:

The three species jump continuously in all directions, and therefore they can easily become part of the menu of other cave inhabitants.

With

Two of the three species jump continuously in all directions; therefore, they can easily become part of the menu of other cave inhabitants.

3.: Splitting of Table 2 (List of aquatic and terrestrial invertebrate species encountered and described in Movile Cave ecosystem) into troglobionts/stygobionts (Table 2) and troglophiles/stygophiles (Table 3), as following:

Table 2. List of troglobionts and stygobionts from Movile Cave.

Table 3. List of troglophiles and stygophiles from Movile Cave.

4.: Replacing a sentence in Section 2.2 Terrestrial fauna, on page 9:

Caucasonethes vandeli pygmaeus is an extremely small isopod, about 1 mm long, it is translucid, and moves very fast.

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Caucasonethes vandeli pygmaeus is an extremely small isopod, less than 2 mm long, it is translucid, and moves very fast.

5.: Replacing a sentence in the Section: Funding on page 10:

S. Iepure and S. Sarbu were supported by grant PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2843 (EVO-DEVO-CAVE).

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S. Iepure and S. Sarbu were supported by grants of Ministry of Research and Innova-tion (UEFISCDI) projects number PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2843 (EVO-DEVO-CAVE) and PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0016 (DARKFOOD).

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Brad, T.; Iepure, S.; Sarbu, S.M. The Chemoautotrophically Based Movile Cave Groundwater Ecosystem, a Hotspot of Subterranean Biodiversity. Diversity 2021, 13, 128. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]

Table 2. List of troglobionts and stygobionts from Movile Cave.

	Aquatic/Terrestrial	Species	Taxonomic Affiliation	References
1	Aquatic	Dendrocoelum obstinatum *; Stocchino et al., 2017	Platyhelminthes, Dendrocoelidae	[30]
2	Aquatic	Panagrolaimus cf. thienemani *	Nematoda, Panagrolaimidae	[34]
3	Aquatic	Chronogaster troglodytes *; Poinar and Sarbu, 1994	Nematoda, Chronogasteridae	[35]
4	Aquatic	Haemopis caeca *^,#; Manoleli et al., 1998	Annelida, Hirudinea, Haemopidae	[36]
5	Aquatic	Helodrilus sp. nov. *	Annelida, Clitellata, Lumbricidae	Martin, P., pers. comm.
6	Aquatic	Heleobia dobrogica *; Grossu and Negrea, 1989	Gastropoda, Moitessieriidae	[29]
7	Aquatic	Pseudocandona sp. nov. *	Crustacea, Ostracoda, Cyprididae	Danielopol, D., pers. comm.
8	Aquatic	Eucyclops graeteri scythicus *; Plesa, 1989	Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopidae	[37]
9	Aquatic	Parapseudoleptomesochra italica; Pesce and Petkovski, 1980	Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida	Rouch, pers. comm.
10	Aquatic	Niphargus racovitzai *; Dancau, 1970	Crustacea, Amphipoda, Niphargidae	[38]
11	Aquatic	Niphargus dancaui *^,#; Brad et al., 2015	Crustacea, Amphipoda, Niphargidae	[39]
12	Aquatic	Asellus aquaticus infernus *^,#; Turk-Prevorčnik and Blejec, 1998	Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellidae	[40]
13	Terrestrial	Caucasonethes vandeli pygmaeus *; Giurginca, 2020	Crustacea, Isopoda, Trichoniscidae	[41]
14	Terrestrial	Haplophthalmus movilae *; Gruia and Giurginca, 1998	Crustacea, Isopoda, Trichoniscidae	[42]
15	Terrestrial	Trachelipus troglobius *; Tabacaru and Boghean, 1989	Crustacea, Isopoda, Trachelipodidae	[43]
16	Terrestrial	Armadillidium tabacarui *; Gruia et al., 1994	Crustacea, Isopoda, Armadillidiidae	[44]
17	Terrestrial	Chthonius monicae *; Boghean, 1989	Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Chthoniidae	[45]
18	Terrestrial	Chthonius borissketi *; Curčić et al., 2014	Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Chthoniidae	[46]
19	Terrestrial	Roncus dragobete *; Curčić et al., 1993	Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Neobisiidae	[47]
20	Terrestrial	Roncus ciobanmos *; Curčić et al., 1993	Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Neobisiidae	[47]
21	Terrestrial	Palliduphantes constantinescui *; Georgescu, 1989	Arachnida, Araneae, Linyphiidae	[48]
22	Terrestrial	Agraecina cristiani *^,#; Georgescu, 1989	Arachnida, Araneae, Liocranidae	[48]
23	Terrestrial	Kryptonesticus georgescuae *; Nae, Sarbu, and Weiss, 2018	Arachnida, Araneae, Nesticidae	[49]
24	Terrestrial	Hahnia caeca *; Georgescu and Sarbu, 1992	Arachnida, Araneae, Hahniidae	[50]
25	Terrestrial	Labidostomma motasi *; Iavorschi, 1992	Arachnida, Acarina, Labidostommatidae	[51]
26	Terrestrial	Geophilus sp. nov. *	Chilopoda, Geophilidae	Baba, St., pers. comm.
27	Terrestrial	Cryptops speleorex *^,#; Vahtera et al., 2020	Chilopoda, Cryptopidae	[31]
28	Terrestrial	Archiboreoiulus serbansarbui *^,#; Giurginca et al., 2020	Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae	[52]
29	Terrestrial	Onychiurus movilae *; Gruia, 1989	Collembola, Onychiuridae	[53]
30	Terrestrial	Oncopodura vioreli *; Gruia, 1989	Collembola, Oncopoduridae	[53]
31	Terrestrial	Plusiocampa isterina *; Condé, 1993	Diplura, Campodeidae	[54]
32	Terrestrial	Plusiocampa euxina *; Condé, 1996	Diplura, Campodeidae	[55]
33	Terrestrial	Medon dobrogicus *; Decu and Georgescu, 1994	Coleoptera, Staphylinidae	[56]
34	Terrestrial	Tychobythinus sulphydricus *; Poggi and Sarbu, 2013	Coleoptera, Staphylinidae	[57]
35	Terrestrial	Decumarellus sarbui *; Poggi, 1994	Coleoptera, Staphylinidae	[58]
36	Terrestrial	Bryaxis dolosus *; Poggi and Sarbu, 2013	Coleoptera, Staphylinidae	[57]
37	Terrestrial	Clivina subterranea *; Decu et al., 1994	Coleoptera, Clivinidae	[59]
38	Aquatic	Nepa anophthalma *; Dedu et al., 1994	Hemiptera, Nepidae	[60]

*—species endemic to Movile Cave; ^#—species found in nearby springs and wells.

Table 3. List of troglophiles and stygophiles from Movile Cave.

	Aquatic/Terrestrial	Species	Taxonomic Affiliation	References
1	Aquatic	Udonchus tenuicaudatus; Cobb, 1913	Nematoda, Rhabdolaimidae	[34]
2	Aquatic	Poikilolaimus sp.	Nematoda, Rhabditidae	[34]
3	Aquatic	Monhystrella sp.	Nematoda, Monhysteridae	[34]
4	Aquatic	Habrotrocha rosa; Donner, 1949	Rotatoria, Habrotrochidae	Ricci, C., pers. comm.
5	Aquatic	Habrotrocha bidens; Gosse, 1851	Rotatoria, Habrotrochidae	Ricci, C., pers. comm.
6	Aquatic	Aelosoma hyalinum; Bunke, 1967	Annelida, Aeolosomatidae	Dumnicka, E., pers. comm.
7	Aquatic	Aelosoma italica; Bunke, 1967	Annelida, Aeolosomatidae	Dumnicka, E., pers. comm.
8	Aquatic	Tropocyclops prasinus; Fischer, 1860	Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopidae	[37]
9	Terrestrial	Carniella brignolii; Thaler and Steinberger, 1988	Arachnida, Araneae, Theridiiae	[48]
10	Terrestrial	Dysdera hungarica; Kulczynski, 1897	Arachnida, Araneae, Dysderidae	Weiss, L., pers. comm.
11	Terrestrial	Clinopodes carinthiacus; Latzel, 1880	Chilopoda, Geophilidae	Zapparoli, M., pers. comm.
12	Terrestrial	Strongylosoma jaqueti; Verhoeff, 1898	Diplopoda, Paradoxosomatidae	Tajovsky K., pers comm.
13	Terrestrial	Pygmarrhopalites pygmaeus; Wankel, 1860	Collembola, Arrhopalitidae	[55]

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