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Caecidotea nickajackensis Packard, 1881

259568  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:259568)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Peracarida (Superorder)
  9. Isopoda (Order)
  10. Asellota (Suborder)
  11. Aselloidea (Superfamily)
  12. Asellidae (Family)
  13. Caecidotea (Genus)
  14. Caecidotea nickajackensis (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Packard, A. S. (1881) Pages 879-880 In: Cope and Packard, The fauna of the Nickajack Cave. American Naturalist 15 (11): 877-882. [details] 
Note Tennessee, USA  
From editor or global species database
type locality Tennessee, USA [details]
Taxonomy There is debate about the author of the species. In "Fauna of Nickajack Cave" (Cope and Packard, 1881), the species is...  
Taxonomy There is debate about the author of the species. In "Fauna of Nickajack Cave" (Cope and Packard, 1881), the species is named Cecidotoea nickajackensis Packard. [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Caecidotea nickajackensis Packard, 1881. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=259568 on 2025-08-25
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2008-01-03 13:02:48Z
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Schotte, Marilyn

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Nomenclature

original description Packard, A. S. (1881) Pages 879-880 In: Cope and Packard, The fauna of the Nickajack Cave. American Naturalist 15 (11): 877-882. [details] 

basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Habitat cave [details]

type locality Tennessee, USA [details]

Unreviewed
Taxonomy There is debate about the author of the species. In "Fauna of Nickajack Cave" (Cope and Packard, 1881), the species is named Cecidotoea nickajackensis Packard. [details]
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LanguageName 
English Nickajack Cave isopod  [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) 
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) 
To ITIS

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