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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaAmphipodaCrangonyctidaeStygobromus

Dougherty Plain Cave Amphipod
Stygobromus doughertyensis Cannizzaro & Sawicki in Cannizzaro, Balding, Stine & Sawicki, 2019

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Amphipoda
Family Crangonyctidae
Genus Stygobromus
Species Stygobromus doughertyensis Cannizzaro & Sawicki in Cannizzaro, Balding, Stine & Sawicki, 2019

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from two states in the Florida Lime Sinks karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Florida, Georgia

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

Specimens

Type material

Holotype
YPM IZ 088716 · Yale Peabody Museum
Allotype
YPM IZ 105171 · Yale Peabody Museum
Paratype ×3
Yale Peabody Museum

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
Yale Peabody Museum 6

6 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 6 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 29 January 2021.

Subnational ranks

Florida
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
7ZL5R
GBIF
10737168
iNaturalist
1104567

How to cite this account

Stygobromus doughertyensis Cannizzaro & Sawicki in Cannizzaro, Balding, Stine & Sawicki, 2019. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1004. https://cavebiology.org/species/stygobromus-doughertyensis/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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