Ashley's Terrestrial Cave Isopod
Brackenridgia ashleyi Lewis, 2004

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Troglobiont

Realm

Terrestrial

Troglomorphy

Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from three counties across two states in the Ozarks karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Arkansas, Missouri

Counties

Arkansas

Independence, Izard

Missouri

Taney

Karst regions

Ozarks

Specimens

Type material

Holotype

USNM 1008288 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Paratype ×2

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

3 cataloged lots in 1 collection. 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 3 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1G3 Critically Imperiled to Vulnerable

Global rank last reviewed 23 March 2006.

Subnational ranks

Missouri

S2 Imperiled

Ranks looked up 23 August 2026. Conservation status changes, and a rank here is as current as that date and no more.

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Other resources

Catalogue of Life

N3DD

GBIF

5176753

ITIS

900043

iNaturalist

215406

References

• Lewis, J.J. & Slay, M.E. 2013. Chaetaspis attenuatus, a new species of cavernicolous milliped from Arkansas (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Macrosternodesmidae). Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 75: 60–63. doi:10.4311/2011LSC0253

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