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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaMyriapodaDiplopodaCallipodidaAbacionidaeTetracion

Jones' Cave Millipede
Tetracion jonesi Hoffman, 1956

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Myriapoda
Class Diplopoda
Order Callipodida
Family Abacionidae
Genus Tetracion
Species Tetracion jonesi Hoffman, 1956

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Bat Cave, Marshall Co. AL

Range

Known from two states in the Interior Low Plateau karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Tennessee

Counties

County-level records have not been compiled for this taxon. Distribution is recorded at state and karst-region level.

Karst regions

Interior Low Plateau

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
COI mitochondrial 17 547-571 bp JN656607.1

17 sequences, retrieved 23 August 2026. Counts change as sequences are deposited. Search GenBank.

Download all 17 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Specimens

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences 5
Field Museum of Natural History 2

7 cataloged lots in 2 collections. Compiled from GBIF and not an exhaustive census: many collections are not yet digitised, and holdings are added continually. Search GBIF for specimen records.

Download all 7 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G3G4 Vulnerable to Apparently Secure

G1G2G3▲G4▲G5

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Tennessee
S1S2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled
Alabama
SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
7BR9J
GBIF
1011660
ITIS
570284
iNaturalist
232394
NCBI Taxonomy
1149914

How to cite this account

Tetracion jonesi Hoffman, 1956. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0481. https://cavebiology.org/species/tetracion-jonesi/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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