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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaIsopodaAsellidaeCaecidotea

Caecidotea adenta Mackin & Hubricht, 1940

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Isopoda
Family Asellidae
Genus Caecidotea
Species Caecidotea adenta Mackin & Hubricht, 1940

Synonyms

Asellus adenta Mackin & Hubricht, 1940
Conasellus adentus (Mackin & Hubricht, 1940)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic
Maximum body length
12 mm

Distribution

Type locality

Sink Cave near Mountain View, Kiowa Co., OK

Range

Known from Oklahoma in the Other karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Oklahoma

Counties

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

Karst regions

Other

Specimens

Type material

Syntype ×2
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 3

3 cataloged lots in 1 collection. 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 3 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1G2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled

G1▲G2▲G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Oklahoma
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
P7NZ
GBIF
2205819
ITIS
92718
iNaturalist
1664282

How to cite this account

Caecidotea adenta Mackin & Hubricht, 1940. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1200. https://cavebiology.org/species/caecidotea-adenta/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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