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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaMyriapodaDiplopodaSpirostreptidaCambalidaeCambala

Cambala speobia Chamberlin, 1953

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Myriapoda
Class Diplopoda
Order Spirostreptida
Family Cambalidae
Genus Cambala
Species Cambala speobia Chamberlin, 1953

Synonyms

Cambala reddellii inornata Causey, 1964
Cambala reddelli Causey, 1964
Cambala caeca Loomis, 1953
Cambala captiosa Causey, 1959
Cambala reddellii Causey, 1964
Eclomus speobius (Chamberlin, 1952)
Eclytus speobius Chamberlin, 1952

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Texas in the Edwards Plateau and Balcones karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Texas

Counties

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

Karst regions

Edwards Plateau and Balcones

Specimens

Type material

Lectotype
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Type
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
University of Texas, Biodiversity Center, Entomology Collection 1277
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 2
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 1
Illinois Natural History Survey 1
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 1
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 1

1,283 cataloged lots in 6 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 1,283 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G4 Apparently Secure

G1G2G3G4▲G5

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Texas
SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
7RTSS
GBIF
1024062
ITIS
569933
iNaturalist
215929

How to cite this account

Cambala speobia Chamberlin, 1953. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0619. https://cavebiology.org/species/cambala-speobia/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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