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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaInsectaColeopteraCarabidaePseudanophthalmus

Coleman Cave Beetle
Pseudanophthalmus colemanensis Barr, 1959

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Insecta
Order Coleoptera
Family Carabidae
Genus Pseudanophthalmus
Species Pseudanophthalmus colemanensis Barr, 1959

Synonyms

Pseudanophthalmus ciliaris colemanensis Barr, 1959

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Coleman Cave, Montgomery Co. TN

Range

Known from Tennessee in the Interior Low Plateau karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Tennessee

Counties

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

Karst regions

Interior Low Plateau

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
COI mitochondrial 5 616-1053 bp OR509984.1
28S nuclear 2 910-910 bp OR353627.1

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

Download all 7 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1 Critically Imperiled

G1▲G2G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 27 November 2005.

Subnational ranks

Tennessee
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
8LGGK
GBIF
9261087
ITIS
931986
iNaturalist
228943
NCBI Taxonomy
2992969

How to cite this account

Pseudanophthalmus colemanensis Barr, 1959. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0676. https://cavebiology.org/species/pseudanophthalmus-colemanensis/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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