Ryloviella pilosa (Chappuis, 1929)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Stygophile

Realm

Aquatic

Distribution

Range

Known from 10 counties across two states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Indiana, Kentucky

Counties

Indiana

Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Lawrence, Monroe, Washington

Kentucky

Edmonson, Hart, Pulaski, Warren

Conservation and management

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• 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
• Cooper, J.E. & Beiter, D.P. 1972. The southern cavefish, Typhlichthys subterraneus (Pisces: Amblyopsidae), in the Mississippian Plateau of Kentucky. Copeia 1972: 879–881.
• Lewis, J.J. & Lewis, S.L. 2005. Inventory of the subterranean fauna of Tims Ford State Park, Franklin County, Tennessee. Tennesee Natural Heritage Program, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 28 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
• Reid, J.W. 2004. New records and new species of the genus Diacyclops (Crustacea: Copepoda) from subterranean habitats in southern Indiana, USA. Jeffersoniana 12: 1–65.

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