Eucyclops agilis (Koch, 1838)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Stygophile

Realm

Aquatic

Distribution

Range

Known from nine counties across five states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New Mexico, Tennessee

Counties

Illinois

Monroe

Indiana

Greene, Orange

Kentucky

Edmonson, Pulaski

New Mexico

Eddy

Tennessee

DeKalb, Grundy, Rutherford

Conservation and management

NatureServe

GNR Unranked

National ranks

United States

NNR

Subnational ranks

Wyoming

SNR Unranked

Montana

SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Barr, T.C. & Reddell, J.R. 1967. The arthropod cave fauna of the Carlsbad Caverns region, New Mexico. The Southwestern Naturalist 12: 253–273.
• Barr, T.C., Jr. & Kuehne, R.A. 1971. Ecological studies in the Mammoth Cave system of Kentucky. II. The Ecosystem. Annales de Speleologie 26: 47–96. doi:10.5038/1827-806X.3.1.10
• Lewis, J.J., Moss, P., Tecic, D. & Nelson, M.E. 2003. A conservation focused inventory of subterranean invertebrates of the southwestern Illinois karst. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 65: 9–21.
• Lewis, J.J. & Lewis, S.L. 2007. A biological reconnaissance of selected caves in the Highland Rim area of central Tennessee. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 42 pp.
• Lewis, J.J. & Reid, J.W. 2007. Patterns and processes of groundwater invasion by copepods in the Interior Low Plateaus of the United States. Acta Carsologica 36: 279–289. doi:10.3986/ac.v36i2.197
• Lewis, J.J., Whitaker, J.O. & Krantz, G.W. 2010. A biological reconnaissance of the invertebrate fauna of twelve Tennessee caves with notes on the guanophilic mites of the genus Macrocheles. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 85: 53–61.
• Yeatman, H.C. 1964. A new cavernicolous cyclopoid copepod from Tennessee and Illinois. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 39: 95–98.

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