Florida Crangonyctid
Crangonyx floridanus Bousfield, 1963
Taxonomy
| Kingdom | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Crustacea |
| Class | Malacostraca |
| Order | Amphipoda |
| Family | Crangonyctidae |
| Genus | Crangonyx |
| Species | Crangonyx floridanus Bousfield, 1963 |
Description
Diagnostic characters
- Ecological class
- Stygophile
- Realm
- Aquatic
Distribution
Range
Known from 11 counties across eight states.
Continent
North America
Country
United States
States and provinces
Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee
Counties
- Alabama
- Jackson, Talladega
- Florida
- Dade, Jackson, Suwannee
- Kentucky
- Christian
- Missouri
- Camden
- North Carolina
- Granville
- Pennsylvania
- Lehigh
- South Carolina
- Barnwell
- Tennessee
- Franklin
Conservation and management
NatureServe
G5 Secure
National ranks
- United States
- N5 Secure
Subnational ranks
- Kansas
- SNR Unranked
- Virginia
- SNR Unranked
- Kentucky
- S4 Apparently Secure
- District of Columbia
- SNR Unranked
- Ohio
- SNR Unranked
- Massachusetts
- SNR Unranked
- Missouri
- SNR Unranked
- Tennessee
- SNR Unranked
- North Carolina
- SNR Unranked
- Florida
- SNR Unranked
- Georgia
- SNR Unranked
- West Virginia
- SNR Unranked
- Alabama
- SNR Unranked
- Mississippi
- SNR Unranked
- Pennsylvania
- SNR Unranked
- Oregon
- SNA Not Applicable
- South Carolina
- SNR Unranked
- Colorado
- SNA Not Applicable
- California
- SNA Not Applicable
- Maryland
- SNR Unranked
State and federal status
Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
References
- Bousfield, E.L. 1963. New fresh-water amphipod crustaceans from Florida. Natural History Papers of the National Museum of Canada 18: 1–9.
- Franz, R., Bauer, J. & Morris, T. 1994. Review of biologically significant caves and their faunas in Florida and south Georgia. Brimleyana 20: 1–109. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229726.
- Hobbs, III., H.H. 1994. Assessment of the ecological resources of the caves of Russell Cave National Monument, Jackson County, Alabama and of selected caves at the Lookout Mountain Unit of Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park, Dade County, Georgia and Hamilton County, Tennessee. 200 pp.
- Lee, D.M. 1969. A food study of the salamander Haideotriton wallacei Carr. Herpetologica 25: 175–177. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3891390.
- 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.
- Lewis, J.J. & Sawicki, T.R. 2016. Mexistenasellus floridensis sp. n., the first stenasellid isopod discovered from the Floridan aquifer (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota). Subterranean Biology 17: 121–132. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.17.7703
- Peck, S.B. 1973. Feeding efficiency in the cave salamander Haideotriton wallacei. International Journal of Speleology 5: 15–19. doi:10.5038/1827-806X.5.1.1
- Sisco, J.M. & Sawicki, T.R. 2023. Molecular and morphological analyses reveal a new hypogean species of amphipod in the genus Crangonyx Bate, 1859 (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae) within the floridanus species complex, from Suwannee County, Florida. Journal of Natural History 57: 21–24. doi:10.1080/00222933.2023.2247155
- Zhang, J. & Holsinger, J.R. 2003. Systematics of the freshwater amphipod genus Crangonyx (Crangonyctidae) in North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memior 6: 1–274.
How to cite this account
Crangonyx floridanus Bousfield, 1963. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1618. https://cavebiology.org/species/crangonyx-floridanus/ (accessed 7 September 2026).
Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.
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