Fountain Cave Springtail
Pseudosinella fonsa Christiansen & Bellinger, 1996

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Troglobiont

Realm

Terrestrial

Troglomorphy

Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Peyton Spring Cave, Clark Co. IN

Range

Known from five counties across three states across two karst regions.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee

Counties

Indiana

Clark, Harrison, Jennings, Monroe

Ohio

Adams

Karst regions

Appalachians, Interior Low Plateau

Specimens

Type material

Holotype

35667 · Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard

Collections holding material

1 cataloged lot 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 1 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G3G4 Vulnerable to Apparently Secure

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Indiana

S2 Imperiled

Ohio

SNR Unranked

Ranks looked up 23 August 2026. Conservation status changes, and a rank here is as current as that date and no more.

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Other resources

Catalogue of Life

4PB8F

GBIF

10776837

iNaturalist

229161

References

• Christiansen, K. & Bellinger, P. 1996a. Cave Pseudosinella and Oncopodura new to science. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 58: 38–53. https://legacy.caves.org/pub/journal/PDF/V58/V58N1-Christiansen.pdf. details

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