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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaAmphipodaCrangonyctidaeStygobromus

Interstitial Amphipod
Stygobromus interstitialis Wang & Holsinger, 2001

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Amphipoda
Family Crangonyctidae
Genus Stygobromus
Species Stygobromus interstitialis Wang & Holsinger, 2001

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Colorado in the Other karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Colorado

Counties

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

Karst regions

Other

Specimens

Type material

Holotype
USNM 1000063 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Paratype
USNM 1530245 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 3

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

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1G3 Critically Imperiled to Vulnerable

G1▲G2G3▲G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 24 June 2004.

Subnational ranks

Colorado
SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
538MK
GBIF
2217811
ITIS
621646
iNaturalist
231876

How to cite this account

Stygobromus interstitialis Wang & Holsinger, 2001. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1042. https://cavebiology.org/species/stygobromus-interstitialis/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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