Tumbling Creek cavesnail
Antrobia culveri Hubricht, 1971
Taxonomy
| Kingdom | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Mollusca |
| Class | Gastropoda |
| Order | Littorinimorpha |
| Family | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus | Antrobia |
| Species | Antrobia culveri Hubricht, 1971 |
Description
Diagnostic characters
- Ecological class
- Stygobiont
- Realm
- Aquatic
- Troglomorphy
- Troglomorphic
- Maximum length
- 2.7 (diameter) mm
Distribution
Type locality
Tumbling Creek Cave, Taney Co., MO
Range
Known from one county in Missouri in the Ozarks karst region.
Continent
North America
Country
United States
States and provinces
Missouri
Counties
- Missouri
- Taney
Karst regions
Ozarks
Specimens
Type material
- Holotype
- 164171 · Field Museum of Natural History
- Paratype
- MO332282 · Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Paratype ×4
- Field Museum of Natural History
Collections holding material
| Institution | Lots |
|---|---|
| Field Museum of Natural History | 5 |
| Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University | 1 |
| National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution | 1 |
7 cataloged lots in 3 collections. Compiled from GBIF and not an exhaustive census: many collections are not yet digitised, and holdings are added continually. Search GBIF for specimen records.
Download all 7 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.
Conservation and management
IUCN Red List
EN Endangered B1+2bc
Assessed in 1996.
NatureServe
G1 Critically Imperiled
Global rank last reviewed 27 October 2008.
Subnational ranks
- Missouri
- S1 Critically Imperiled
Ranks looked up 23 August 2026. Conservation status changes, and a rank here is as current as that date and no more.
State and federal status
Endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, listed in 2002.
Federal: Endangered
Threats
- Urbanization - Residential
- Urbanization - Comm. & Industrial
- Agriculture - Livestock
- Invasive Species
- Pollution -Sewage or Urban Wastewater
- Pollution - Agricultural & Forestry
- Climate Change - Precip
Other resources
References
- Gladstone, N.S., Niemiller, M.L., Hutchins, B., Schwartz, B., Czaja, A., Slay, M.E. & Whelan, N.V. 2022. Subterranean freshwater gastropod biodiversity and conservation in the United States and Mexico. Conservation Biology 36: e13722. doi:10.1111/cobi.13722
- Kabat, A.R. & Hershler, R. 1993. The prosobranch snail family Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda: Rissooidea): review of classification and supraspecific taxa. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 547: 1–94. https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/5560/SCtZ-0547-Lo_res.pdf. details
This account was last revised 28 August 2026. Conservation ranks were looked up 23 August 2026.
How to cite this account
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