Yeatman's Groundwater Copepod
Diacyclops yeatmani Reid, 1988
Taxonomy
| Kingdom | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Crustacea |
| Class | Maxillopoda |
| Order | Cyclopoida |
| Family | Cyclopidae |
| Genus | Diacyclops |
| Species | Diacyclops yeatmani Reid, 1988 |
Synonyms
- Cyclops clandestinus Yeatman, 1964 (subjective synonym, CoL)
- Diacyclops clandestinus (Yeatman, 1964) (subjective synonym, CoL)
- Cyclops languidoides clandestinus Kiefer, 1926 (subjective synonym, GBIF)
Description
Diagnostic characters
- Ecological class
- Stygobiont
- Realm
- Aquatic
- Troglomorphy
- Troglomorphic
Distribution
Type locality
Bigmouth Cave, Grundy Co. TN
Range
Known from five counties across five states across three karst regions.
Continent
North America
Country
United States
States and provinces
Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee
Counties
- Illinois
- Vermillion
- Indiana
- Crawford
- Tennessee
- Franklin, Grundy, Van Buren
Karst regions
Interior Low Plateau, Other, Ozarks
Specimens
Collections holding material
| Institution | Lots |
|---|---|
| Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences | 4 |
| National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution | 1 |
5 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 5 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.
Conservation and management
NatureServe
G2G3 Imperiled to Vulnerable
Global rank last reviewed 21 February 2008.
Subnational ranks
- Illinois
- SNR Unranked
- Indiana
- S1 Critically Imperiled
- Missouri
- S1S3 Critically Imperiled to Vulnerable
- Tennessee
- S1 Critically 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. 2005a. A biological inventory of caves of the Cumberland Plateau. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 156 pp.
- Lewis, J.J. & Reid, J.W. 2007. Patterns and processes of groundwater invasion by copepods in the Interior Low Plateaus of the United States. Acta Carsologica 36: 279–289. doi:10.3986/ac.v36i2.197
- Niemiller, M.L. & Zigler, K.S. 2013. Patterns of cave biodiversity and endemism in the Appalachians and Interior Plateau of Tennessee, USA. PLOS One 8: e64177. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064177
- Reid, J.W. 2004. New records and new species of the genus Diacyclops (Crustacea: Copepoda) from subterranean habitats in southern Indiana, USA. Jeffersoniana 12: 1–65.
- Yeatman, H.C. 1964. A new cavernicolous cyclopoid copepod from Tennessee and Illinois. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 39: 95–98.
This account was last revised 28 August 2026. Conservation ranks were looked up 23 August 2026.
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