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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaMolluscaGastropodaStylommatophoraZonitidaeGlyphyalinia

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Glyphyalinia sculptilis (Bland, 1858)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Stylommatophora
Family Zonitidae
Genus Glyphyalinia
Species Glyphyalinia sculptilis (Bland, 1858)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglophile
Realm
Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from eight counties across four states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee

Counties

Alabama
Shelby
Georgia
Bartow, Chattooga, Walker
Kentucky
Adair, Laurel, Pulaski
Tennessee
Grundy

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G4 Apparently Secure

G1G2G3G4▲G5

National ranks

United States
N4 Apparently Secure

Subnational ranks

Louisiana
SNR Unranked
Tennessee
S4 Apparently Secure
Alabama
SNR Unranked
South Carolina
SNR Unranked
Kentucky
S1 Critically Imperiled
Virginia
SU Unrankable
Georgia
SNR Unranked
Mississippi
SNR Unranked
North Carolina
S4 Apparently Secure

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

  • Hubricht, L. 1964. Land snails from the caves of Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. National Speleological Society Bulletin 26: 33–36.
  • Lewis, J.J. 2004. Interstate 66 karst faunal study. Environmental Impact Statement. 17 pp.
  • Lewis, J.J. 2005. A biological inventory of caves of the Cumberland Plateau. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 156 pp.
  • Peck, S.B. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.
  • Reeves, W.K., Jensen, J.B. & Ozier, J.C. 2000. New faunal and fungal records from caves in Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 62: 169–179. https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v62/v62n3-Reeves.pdf.
  • Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

How to cite this account

Glyphyalinia sculptilis (Bland, 1858). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1745. https://cavebiology.org/species/glyphyalinia-sculptilis/ (accessed 7 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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