Northern Spring Amphipod
Gammarus pseudolimnaeus Bousfield, 1958

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Stygophile

Realm

Aquatic

Distribution

Range

Known from 21 counties across two states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Iowa, Illinois

Counties

Iowa

Clayton, Fayette, Jackson, Winneshiek

Illinois

Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Carroll, Gallatin, Greene, Hardin, Jackson, Jersey, Johnson, La Salle, LaSalle, Monroe, Pope, Randolph, St. Clair, Union

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

National ranks

United States

NNR

Subnational ranks

Massachusetts

S1 Critically Imperiled

Arkansas

S2 Imperiled

Indiana

SNR Unranked

Illinois

SNR Unranked

Virginia

S3 Vulnerable

Oklahoma

S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Lewis, J.J. & Bowman, T.E. 1981. The subterranean asellids (Caecidotea) of Illinois (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 335: 1–66. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.335
• Lewis, J.J., Moss, P., Tecic, D. & Nelson, M.E. 2003. A conservation focused inventory of subterranean invertebrates of the southwestern Illinois karst. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 65: 9–21.
• 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. 1988. A review of the cave fauna of Canada, and the composition and ecology of the invertebrate fauna of caves and mines in Ontario. Canadian Journal of Zoology 66: 1197–1213. doi:10.1139/z88-176
• Peck, S.B. & Christiansen, K. 1990. Evolution and zoogeography of the invertebrate cave faunas of the Driftless Area of the upper Mississippi River Valley of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68: 73–88. doi:10.1139/z90-012
• 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.

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