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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaOstracodaPodocopidaEntocytheridaeSagittocythere

Sagittocythere barri (Hart & Hobbs, 1961)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Ostracoda
Order Podocopida
Family Entocytheridae
Genus Sagittocythere
Species Sagittocythere barri (Hart & Hobbs, 1961)

Synonyms

Entocythere barri C. W. Hart & Hobbs, 1961

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Cave Spring Cave, Madison Co. AL

Range

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

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, 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

Specimens

Type material

Paratype
USNM 1633730 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 76

76 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 76 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

G1G2G3G4G5▲

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Alabama
SNR Unranked
Indiana
S3S4 Vulnerable to Apparently Secure
Kentucky
S3 Vulnerable
Tennessee
S3 Vulnerable

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
SJH2S
GBIF
1030408
ITIS
84974

How to cite this account

Sagittocythere barri (Hart & Hobbs, 1961). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1346. https://cavebiology.org/species/sagittocythere-barri/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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