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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaPlatyhelminthesTurbellariaTricladidaDendrocoelidaeDendrocoelopsis

Dendrocoelopsis americana (Hyman, 1939)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Class Turbellaria
Order Tricladida
Family Dendrocoelidae
Genus Dendrocoelopsis
Species Dendrocoelopsis americana (Hyman, 1939)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic
Maximum body length
23 mm

Distribution

Type locality

Bat Cave, Adair Co., OK

Range

Known from four states across two karst regions.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas

Counties

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

Karst regions

Other, Ozarks

Specimens

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 21
Field Museum of Natural History 5
Naturalis Biodiversity Center 3
National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo 1

30 cataloged lots in 4 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 30 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G3 Vulnerable

G1G2G3▲G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 10 April 2023.

Subnational ranks

Arkansas
S1 Critically Imperiled
Oklahoma
S2 Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
34PQV
GBIF
2502955
ITIS
54480
iNaturalist
218214

How to cite this account

Dendrocoelopsis americana (Hyman, 1939). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1414. https://cavebiology.org/species/dendrocoelopsis-americana/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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