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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaDecapodaAtyidaeHalocaridina

Halocaridina rubra Holthuis, 1963

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Atyidae
Genus Halocaridina
Species Halocaridina rubra Holthuis, 1963

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Hawaii in the Hawaii karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Hawaii

Counties

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

Karst regions

Hawaii

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
COI mitochondrial 275 555-642 bp ON153179.1
16S mitochondrial 24 485-826 bp HE800989.1
other unknown 14 228-135234 bp GHBK00000000.1
mitogenome mitochondrial 10 16029-16359 bp NC_008413.1
NaK nuclear 6 294-5695 bp KF650066.1
18S nuclear 2 670-791 bp HE801015.1
28S nuclear 2 252-1198 bp HE801036.1
H3 nuclear 2 328-328 bp EU123808.1
and 2 other markers 2

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

Download all 337 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Mitogenome
Available
Nuclear genome
Available

Specimens

Type material

Paratype ×2
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 9
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 8
Naturalis Biodiversity Center 5
Florida Museum of Natural History 1
Natural History Museum, London 1
Ryukyu University Museum 1

25 cataloged lots in 6 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 25 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G3 Vulnerable

G1G2G3▲G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 5 June 2006.

Subnational ranks

Hawaii
SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
8V8MN
GBIF
2223082
ITIS
659858
iNaturalist
220888
NCBI Taxonomy
373956

How to cite this account

Halocaridina rubra Holthuis, 1963. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1155. https://cavebiology.org/species/halocaridina-rubra/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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