Small Alabama Sowbug
Miktoniscus medcofi Van Name, 1940

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Troglophile

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 13 counties across seven states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia

Counties

Alabama

Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan

Florida

Jackson

Illinois

Hardin

North Carolina

McDowell

Tennessee

DeKalb, Franklin, Smith

Virginia

Alleghany, Rockbridge

West Virginia

Greenbrier

Conservation and management

NatureServe

GNR Unranked

National ranks

United States

NNR

Subnational ranks

Tennessee

SNR Unranked

North Carolina

S1 Critically Imperiled

Alabama

SNR Unranked

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.
• 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.
• Godwin, J.C. 2008. Biological inventory of the cave and karst systems of The Nature Conservancy's Sharp-Bingham Mountain Preserve. Alabama Natural Heritage Program, Auburn, Alabama, USA. 40 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.
• 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.
• Peck, S.B. 1970. The terrestrial arthropod fauna of Florida caves. The Florida Entomologist 53: 203–207. doi:10.2307/3493189
• 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. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.
• Schultz, G.A. 1964. Two additional data on terrestrial isopod crustaceans: Ligidium blueridgensis, sp. nov., from Georgia and a North Carolina cave location for Miktoniscus linearis (Patience, 1908). Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 80: 90–94.
• Vandel, A. 1965. Les Trichoniscidae cavernicoles (Isopoda Terrestria; Crustacea) de l'Amérique du Nord. Annales de Speleologie 20: 347–389.

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