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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaCollembolaEntomobryomorphaEntomobryidaePseudosinella

Spiny Cave Springtail
Pseudosinella spinosa (Delamare Deboutteville, 1949)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Collembola
Order Entomobryomorpha
Family Entomobryidae
Genus Pseudosinella
Species Pseudosinella spinosa (Delamare Deboutteville, 1949)

Synonyms

Troglosinella spinosa Delamare, 1949

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Alladin's Cave, Madison Co. AL

Range

Known from three states across two karst regions.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee

Counties

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

Karst regions

Appalachians, Interior Low Plateau

Specimens

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
Universidad de Quintana Roo 3
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 1
Natural History Museum, London 1

5 cataloged lots in 3 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 5 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

G1G2G3G4G5▲

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Alabama
SNR Unranked
Georgia
SNR Unranked
Tennessee
S2 Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
4PBF5
GBIF
2120929
ITIS
99849
iNaturalist
229168

How to cite this account

Pseudosinella spinosa (Delamare Deboutteville, 1949). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0405. https://cavebiology.org/species/pseudosinella-spinosa/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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