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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaOstracodaPodocopidaCandonidaePseudocandona

Jeannel's Cave Ostracod
Pseudocandona jeanneli (Klie, 1931)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Ostracoda
Order Podocopida
Family Candonidae
Genus Pseudocandona
Species Pseudocandona jeanneli (Klie, 1931)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Donaldson Cave, Lawrence Co. IN

Range

Known from three states across two karst regions.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Indiana, Kentucky, 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, Other

Specimens

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 3

3 cataloged lots in 1 collection. 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 3 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G3 Vulnerable

G1G2G3▲G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 19 February 2023.

Subnational ranks

Indiana
S1 Critically Imperiled
Kentucky
S1 Critically Imperiled
Tennessee
S1S2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
SDV35
GBIF
4987794
ITIS
683622

How to cite this account

Pseudocandona jeanneli (Klie, 1931). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1340. https://cavebiology.org/species/pseudocandona-jeanneli/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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