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Mammoth Cave National Park The lowest level of the cave is still being formed by underground rivers.
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Planaria in a cave stream (NPS Photo)
Common organisms living within the sediments of Mammoth Cave streams are nematodes or roundworms (undescribed), copepods (Maraenobiotus, Moraria, Nitocra, and Parastenocaris), tardigrades (Macrobiotus), and oligochaete worms (Aeolosoma).
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