Brilliant Glyph
Glyphyalinia praecox (H. B. Baker, 1930)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Trogloxene

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from six counties across two states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Georgia, Tennessee

Counties

Georgia

Bartow

Tennessee

Coffee, Cumberland, Grundy, Marion, Warren

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G4 Apparently Secure

National ranks

United States

N4 Apparently Secure

Subnational ranks

Tennessee

S4 Apparently Secure

Georgia

SNR Unranked

Mississippi

SNR Unranked

Alabama

SNR Unranked

Virginia

SU Unrankable

North Carolina

S4 Apparently Secure

South Carolina

SNR Unranked

Kentucky

S2 Imperiled

West Virginia

SH Possibly Extirpated

Louisiana

SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Lewis, J.J. 2005. A biological inventory of caves of the Cumberland Plateau. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 156 pp.
• Reeves, W.K., Jensen, J.B. & Ozier, J.C. 2000. New faunal and fungal records from caves in Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 62: 169–179. https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v62/v62n3-Reeves.pdf.
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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