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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaAmphipodaCrangonyctidaeStygobromus

Hay's Spring Amphipod
Stygobromus hayi (Hubricht & Mackin, 1940)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Amphipoda
Family Crangonyctidae
Genus Stygobromus
Species Stygobromus hayi (Hubricht & Mackin, 1940)

Synonyms

Stygonectes hayi (Hubricht & Mackin, 1940)
Synpleonia hayi Hubricht & Mackin, 1940

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from District of Columbia in the Other karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

District of Columbia

Counties

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

Karst regions

Other

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
28S nuclear 4 425-834 bp OR530144.1
COI mitochondrial 3 535-535 bp OR506966.1
18S nuclear 2 610-610 bp OR530127.1
H3 nuclear 2 329-329 bp OR506359.1

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

Download all 11 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Specimens

Type material

Syntype ×3
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 10
Field Museum of Natural History 1

11 cataloged lots in 2 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 11 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

IUCN Red List

EN Endangered B1+2c

EXEWCREN▲VUNTLC

Assessed in 1996.

NatureServe

G1G2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled

G1▲G2▲G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

District of Columbia
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act listed 1982

Federal: Endangered

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
538M4
GBIF
2217799
ITIS
93905
iNaturalist
113347
NCBI Taxonomy
2027540

How to cite this account

Stygobromus hayi (Hubricht & Mackin, 1940). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1029. https://cavebiology.org/species/stygobromus-hayi/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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