This will be accomplished by making a series of morphometrical analyses using the scorpions collected by the persons listed above and those on loan from the various national museums. As of October 1996, all morphometrical measurements have been made and are awaiting netry into the statistics program. These results will provide the data necessary to determine how many species of scorpion are currently under the name Diplocentrus new species. 1998 Taxonomic evaluation of land snails of the family Urocoptidae with emphasis on the reproductive anatomy. To evaluate the classification of southwestern US land snails of the family Urocoptidae with emphasis on the comparative anatomy of the reproductive tract.
Present analysis is based on shell characters alone.
Another species, Metastoma roemeri ranges into the park. Two live specimens and twenty three shells were collected as itemized below. The live specimens were drowned and their reproductive systems dissected free of the other organs. These were then stained and slide-mounted for further evaluation. The two species that were represented by living material exhibited distinctly different reproductive characters.