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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaAmphipodaCrangonyctidaeStygobromus

Stygobromus secundus Bousfield & Holsinger, 1981

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Amphipoda
Family Crangonyctidae
Genus Stygobromus
Species Stygobromus secundus Bousfield & Holsinger, 1981

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Alberta in the Other karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

Canada

States and provinces

Alberta

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
CMNC 1981-0155 · Canadian Museum of Nature
Allotype
CMNC 1981-0156 · Canadian Museum of Nature
Paratype
CMNC 1981-0157 · Canadian Museum of Nature
Paratype
USNM 1530842 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
Canadian Museum of Nature 3
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 1

4 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 4 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1 Critically Imperiled

G1▲G2G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 4 February 2016.

Subnational ranks

Alberta
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
538PC
GBIF
2217829
ITIS
621676
iNaturalist
231902

How to cite this account

Stygobromus secundus Bousfield & Holsinger, 1981. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1087. https://cavebiology.org/species/stygobromus-secundus/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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