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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaIsopodaCirolanidaeAntrolana

Antrolana lira Bowman 1964

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Isopoda
Family Cirolanidae
Genus Antrolana
Species Antrolana lira Bowman 1964

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Madison Saltpetre Cave, Augusta Co. VA

Range

Known from two states in the Appalachians karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Virginia, West Virginia

Counties

County-level records have not been compiled for this taxon. Distribution is recorded at state and karst-region level.

Karst regions

Appalachians

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
COI mitochondrial 15 415-658 bp MK953485.1
12S mitochondrial 1 477-477 bp EF460862.1
16S mitochondrial 1 343-343 bp EF460861.1

17 sequences, retrieved 23 August 2026. Counts change as sequences are deposited. Search GenBank.

Download all 17 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Specimens

Type material

Holotype
USNM 110783 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Paratype ×2
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 31
Edwards Aquifer Research and Data Center, Texas State University 3
Ocean Genome Legacy Center 2
Yale Peabody Museum 1

37 cataloged lots in 4 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 37 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

IUCN Red List

VU Vulnerable D2

EXEWCRENVU▲NTLC

Assessed in 1996.

NatureServe

G2G4 Imperiled to Apparently Secure

G1G2▲G3G4▲G5

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Virginia
S2 Imperiled
West Virginia
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act listed 1982

Federal: Threatened

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
F4GL
GBIF
2212893
ITIS
92263
iNaturalist
94230
NCBI Taxonomy
431746

How to cite this account

Antrolana lira Bowman 1964. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1288. https://cavebiology.org/species/antrolana-lira/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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