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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaMyriapodaDiplopodaChordeumatidaCleidogonidaePseudotremia

Pseudotremia acheron Shear, 1972

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Myriapoda
Class Diplopoda
Order Chordeumatida
Family Cleidogonidae
Genus Pseudotremia
Species Pseudotremia acheron Shear, 1972

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Cumberland Cave, Warren Co. TN

Range

Known from two counties in Tennessee in the Interior Low Plateau karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Tennessee

Counties

Tennessee
Van Buren, Warren

Karst regions

Interior Low Plateau

Specimens

Type material

Holotype
88217 · Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
Paratype
88317 · Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 2

2 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 2 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1G2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled

G1▲G2▲G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Tennessee
S1 Critically Imperiled

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
4PDXF
GBIF
1022567
ITIS
570418
iNaturalist
229181

References

  • Lewis, J.J. 2005a. A biological inventory of caves of the Cumberland Plateau. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 156 pp.
  • Lewis, J.J. 2005b. Six new species of Pseudotremia from caves of the Tennessee Cumberland Plateau (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Cleidogonidae). Zootaxa 1080: 17–31. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1080.1.2
  • Niemiller, M.L. & Zigler, K.S. 2013. Patterns of cave biodiversity and endemism in the Appalachians and Interior Plateau of Tennessee, USA. PLOS One 8: e64177. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064177
  • Shear, W.A. 1972. Studies in the milliped order Chordeumida (Diplopoda): A revision of the family Cleidogonidae and a reclassification of the order Chordeumida in the New World. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 144: 151–352. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4227660. details

This account was last revised 28 August 2026. Conservation ranks were looked up 23 August 2026.

How to cite this account

Pseudotremia acheron Shear, 1972. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0486. https://cavebiology.org/species/pseudotremia-acheron/ (accessed 18 October 2026).
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