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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaAmphipodaCrangonyctidaeStygobromus

Peck's Cave Amphipod
Stygobromus pecki (Holsinger, 1967)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Amphipoda
Family Crangonyctidae
Genus Stygobromus
Species Stygobromus pecki (Holsinger, 1967)

Synonyms

Stygonectes pecki Holsinger, 1967

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Texas in the Edwards Plateau and Balcones karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Texas

Counties

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

Karst regions

Edwards Plateau and Balcones

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
COI mitochondrial 32 455-501 bp JQ358866.1
ITS nuclear 1 212-212 bp JQ363743.1

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

Download all 33 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Specimens

Type material

Holotype
USNM 141753 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Paratype
USNM 141754 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 29
University of Texas, Biodiversity Center, Entomology Collection 6
Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Texas A&M University 1

36 cataloged lots in 3 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 36 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 12 May 2009.

Subnational ranks

Texas
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act listed 1997

Federal: Endangered

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
538NT
GBIF
2217932
ITIS
93919
iNaturalist
113361
NCBI Taxonomy
1173225

How to cite this account

Stygobromus pecki (Holsinger, 1967). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1072. https://cavebiology.org/species/stygobromus-pecki/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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