Amber Ridged Millipede
Cambala minor Bollman, 1888

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Troglophile

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 42 counties across 11 states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia

Counties

Alabama

Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, DeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan, Talladega

Arkansas

Stone, Washington

Georgia

Chattooga, Dade, Walker

Illinois

Hardin, Monroe, Union

Indiana

Harrison, Jefferson

Kentucky

Barren

Missouri

Perry, St. Genevieve, Taney

Oklahoma

Adair, Sequoyah

Tennessee

Bedford, Davidson, DeKalb, Franklin, Grainger, Hickman, Perry, Roane, Wayne

Virginia

Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Washington

West Virginia

Greenbrier

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

National ranks

United States

NNR

Subnational ranks

Indiana

S4 Apparently Secure

Alabama

SNR Unranked

Illinois

SNR Unranked

Virginia

S3 Vulnerable

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Causey, N.B. 1959. Some cavernicolous millipeds from the Cumberland Plateau. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 34: 229–237.
• Lawson, K.M., Schotz, A.R., Jenkins, A.J., Armbruster, J.W., Black, C., Callahan, M., Goertzen, L., Hansen, C., Stephen, C.D.R., Werneke, D., Mendonca, M. & Molina, E. 2021. Planning level survey of Redstone Arsenal for at-risk species and ecologically significant communities. Environmental Management Division, U.S. Army Garrison, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, USA. 402 pp.
• Lewis, J.J. & Lewis, S.L. 2005. Inventory of the subterranean fauna of Tims Ford State Park, Franklin County, Tennessee. Tennesee Natural Heritage Program, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 28 pp.
• Loomis, H.F. 1943. New and epigen millipeds of the United States, with notes on some established species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 92: 371–410. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2825746.
• McDaniel, V.R. & Smith, K.L. 1976. Cave fauna of Arkansas: selected invertebrate taxa. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 30: 57–60. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol30/iss1/22.
• Peck, S.B. & Lewis, J.J. 1978. Zoogeography and evolution of the subterranean invertebrate faunas of Illinois and southeastern Missouri. National Speleological Society Bulletin 40: 39–63.
• Peck, S.B. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.
• Shelley, R.M. 1979. A synopsis of the millipede genus Cambala with a description of Cambala minor Bollman (Spirostreptida: Cambalidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 92: 551–571. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35514268.
• Webb, D.W., Taylor, S.J. & Krejca, J.K. 1993. The biological resources of Illinois caves and other subterranean environments. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA. 143 pp.
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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