Caecidotea alabamensis Stafford, 1911
Taxonomy
| Kingdom | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Crustacea |
| Class | Malacostraca |
| Order | Isopoda |
| Family | Asellidae |
| Genus | Caecidotea |
| Species | Caecidotea alabamensis Stafford, 1911 |
Synonyms
- Conasellus alabamensis (Stafford, 1911) (prior combination, CoL)
Description
Diagnostic characters
- Ecological class
- Stygobiont
- Realm
- Aquatic
- Troglomorphy
- Troglomorphic
Distribution
Type locality
Yarborough Farm, Lee Co. AL
Range
Known from 35 counties across five states in the Other karst region.
Continent
North America
Country
United States
States and provinces
Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee
Counties
- Alabama
- Colbert, Jackson, Lawrence, Lee, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan
- Illinois
- Union
- Indiana
- Monroe
- Kentucky
- Barren, Caldwell, Christian, Letcher, Livingston, Logan, Metcalfe, Todd, Trigg
- Tennessee
- Bedford, Cannon, Claiborne, Clay, Davidson, De Kalb, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence, Maury, Rutherford, Smith, Wayne, White, Wilson
Karst regions
Other
Specimens
Collections holding material
| Institution | Lots |
|---|---|
| National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution | 127 |
| American Museum of Natural History | 1 |
128 cataloged lots in 2 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 128 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.
Conservation and management
NatureServe
G3G4 Vulnerable to Apparently Secure
Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.
Subnational ranks
- Alabama
- S1S2 Critically Imperiled to 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
Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Other resources
References
- Lewis, J.J. 1988. The systematics, zoogeography and life history of the troglobitic isopods of the Interior Plateaus of the eastern United States. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. 281 pp.
- Lewis, J.J. & Bowman, T.E. 1981. The subterranean asellids (Caecidotea) of Illinois (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 335: 1–66. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.335
- Nicholas, G. 1960. Checklist of macroscopic troglobitic organisms of the United States. The American Midland Naturalist 64: 123–160. doi:10.2307/2422897
- Stafford, B.E. 1911. A new subterranean freshwater isopod. Pomona College Journal of Entomology 3: 572–575. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8204543. details
- Warren, R.D. 1961. The obligate cavernicoles of Florida. Special Papers of the Florida Speleological Society 1: 1–10.
This account was last revised 28 August 2026. Conservation ranks were looked up 23 August 2026.
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