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Euryurus leachii (Gray, 1832)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Trogloxene

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from six counties across two states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Kentucky

Counties

Alabama

Conecuh, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, Marshall

Kentucky

Larue

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G4 Apparently Secure

National ranks

United States

NNR

Subnational ranks

Indiana

S4 Apparently Secure

South Carolina

SNR Unranked

Virginia

S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Cooper, J.E. 1975. Ecological and behavioral studies in Shelta Cave, Alabama, with emphasis on decapod crustaceans. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. 364 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.
• Niemiller, M.L., Maxwell, E. & Higgs, J.P. 2024. A biological inventory of Sinking Spring Cave at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, Larue County, Kentucky, USA. U.S. National Park Service, Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA. 21 pp.
• Peck, S.B. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.

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