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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaIsopodaAsellidaeCaecidotea

Caecidotea antricola Creaser, 1931

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Isopoda
Family Asellidae
Genus Caecidotea
Species Caecidotea antricola Creaser, 1931

Synonyms

Conasellus antricolus (Creaser, 1931)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Ha-Ha Tonka Cave, Camden Co., MO

Range

Known from three states in the Ozarks karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma

Counties

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

Karst regions

Ozarks

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
28S nuclear 4 401-716 bp OR505651.1
COI mitochondrial 4 579-894 bp OR291935.1
other unknown 2 654-676 bp OR341820.1

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

Download all 10 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Specimens

Type material

Holotype
USNM 98385 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Allotype
USNM 98386 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Paratype ×2
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 183
Field Museum of Natural History 8

191 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 191 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

G1G2G3G4G5▲

Global rank last reviewed 8 February 2007.

Subnational ranks

Arkansas
SNR Unranked
Missouri
S4 Apparently Secure
Oklahoma
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
P7P6
GBIF
2205871
ITIS
92721
iNaturalist
215622
NCBI Taxonomy
3059442

How to cite this account

Caecidotea antricola Creaser, 1931. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1204. https://cavebiology.org/species/caecidotea-antricola/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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