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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaIsopodaAsellidaeRemasellus

Remasellus parvus (Steeves, 1964)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Isopoda
Family Asellidae
Genus Remasellus
Species Remasellus parvus (Steeves, 1964)

Synonyms

Asellus parvus Steeves, 1964
Conasellus parvus (Steeves, 1964)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Florida in the Florida Lime Sinks karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Florida

Counties

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

Karst regions

Florida Lime Sinks

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
28S nuclear 7 445-746 bp PV033526.1
COI mitochondrial 6 455-815 bp PV023371.1
other unknown 2 616-863 bp OR341951.1
16S mitochondrial 1 473-473 bp AY570143.1

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

Download all 16 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Specimens

Type material

Type
USNM 111142 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 13

13 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 13 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 22 January 2019.

Subnational ranks

Florida
S1S2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
4RR9F
GBIF
2206191
ITIS
92784
iNaturalist
1664310
NCBI Taxonomy
267900

How to cite this account

Remasellus parvus (Steeves, 1964). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1285. https://cavebiology.org/species/remasellus-parvus/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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