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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaMolluscaGastropodaStylommatophoraDiscidaeAnguispira

Anguispira alternata (Say, 1817)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Stylommatophora
Family Discidae
Genus Anguispira
Species Anguispira alternata (Say, 1817)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Trogloxene
Realm
Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from five counties across three states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Florida, Tennessee

Counties

Alabama
Jackson
Florida
Jackson
Tennessee
Montgomery, Overton, Van Buren

Conservation and management

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

  • Franz, R., Bauer, J. & Morris, T. 1994. Review of biologically significant caves and their faunas in Florida and south Georgia. Brimleyana 20: 1–109. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229726.
  • Godwin, J.C. 2008. Biological inventory of the cave and karst systems of The Nature Conservancy's Sharp-Bingham Mountain Preserve. Alabama Natural Heritage Program, Auburn, Alabama, USA. 40 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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., 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.
  • Peck, S.B. 1988. A review of the cave fauna of Canada, and the composition and ecology of the invertebrate fauna of caves and mines in Ontario. Canadian Journal of Zoology 66: 1197–1213. doi:10.1139/z88-176

How to cite this account

Anguispira alternata (Say, 1817). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2180. https://cavebiology.org/species/anguispira-alternata/ (accessed 7 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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