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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaChelicerataArachnidaAraneaeLinyphiidaeCeraticelus

Ceraticelus fissiceps (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Chelicerata
Class Arachnida
Order Araneae
Family Linyphiidae
Genus Ceraticelus
Species Ceraticelus fissiceps (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglophile
Realm
Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from two counties in Alabama.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama

Counties

Alabama
Colbert, Morgan

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

G1G2G3G4G5▲

National ranks

Canada
N5 Secure
United States
NNR

Subnational ranks

Saskatchewan
S4 Apparently Secure
New Brunswick
SU Unrankable
Manitoba
S4 Apparently Secure
British Columbia
S5 Secure
Prince Edward Island
S4 Apparently Secure
Yukon
SU Unrankable
Nova Scotia
SU Unrankable
Ontario
SU Unrankable
Alberta
S4 Apparently Secure
Newfoundland and Labrador
S4 Apparently Secure
Quebec
SNR Unranked
Montana
SNR Unranked
West Virginia
SNR Unranked
Indiana
SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

  • Niemiller, M.L., Anderson, C.L., Maxwell, E.C., Midgette, H., Quering, C., Richards, M., Wilson, K. & Wirwa, N. 2025. A noteworthy range extension of the federally endangered Alabama Cave Shrimp (Palaemonias alabamae) south of the Tennessee River in northern Alabama. Southeastern Naturalist 24: N47-N58. doi:10.1656/058.024.0403
  • Peck, S.B. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.

How to cite this account

Ceraticelus fissiceps (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1573. https://cavebiology.org/species/ceraticelus-fissiceps/ (accessed 7 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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