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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaDecapodaCambaridaeProcambarus

Putnum County Cave Crayfish
Procambarus morrisi Hobbs & Franz, 1991

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Cambaridae
Genus Procambarus
Species Procambarus morrisi Hobbs & Franz, 1991

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Devil’s Sink, Putnam Co., FL

Range

Known from Florida in the Florida Lime Sinks karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Florida

Counties

County-level records have not been compiled for this taxon. Distribution is recorded at state and karst-region level.

Karst regions

Florida Lime Sinks

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
28S nuclear 2 442-743 bp KX238279.1
18S nuclear 1 362-362 bp KX238125.1
COI mitochondrial 1 363-363 bp KX238210.1
H3 nuclear 1 327-327 bp KX238351.1

5 sequences, retrieved 23 August 2026. Counts change as sequences are deposited. Search GenBank.

Download all 5 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Specimens

Type material

Holotype
USNM 220374 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Allotype
USNM 220375 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Paratype ×5
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 8
Florida Museum of Natural History 5

13 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 13 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

IUCN Red List

CR Critically Endangered B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii)

EXEWCR▲ENVUNTLC

Assessed in 2010.

NatureServe

G1 Critically Imperiled

G1▲G2G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 16 September 2022.

Subnational ranks

Florida
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Threats

  • Recreational/Commerical Cave Activities
  • Dams & Water Extraction
  • Climate Change-Sea Level Rise

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
7WLVX
GBIF
2227188
ITIS
650389
iNaturalist
110494
NCBI Taxonomy
1937897

How to cite this account

Procambarus morrisi Hobbs & Franz, 1991. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1189. https://cavebiology.org/species/procambarus-morrisi/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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