Stygobromus lucifugus Hay, 1882
Rubious Cave amphipod
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Apocrangonyx lucifugus, Hay 1882; Crangonyx lucifugus Hay, 1882
Possibly conspecific with S. subtilis (Elliott, 2005).
Conservation Status
Extinct or invalid
Last record: 1882
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Illinois, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hay, Oliver Perry. (1882). Notes on Some Fresh-water Crustacea, together with Descriptions of Two New Species. The American Naturalist 41(2): 143-146. doi:10.1086/273020
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Eldridge, Niles. (1998). Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Elliott, William R. (2005). Critical issues in cave biology, pp. 35-39. In 2005 National Cave and Karst Management System Symposium.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Stygobromus lucifugus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 16 June 2011.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1996. Stygobromus lucifugus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T20995A9242405. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T20995A9242405.en. Accessed on 30 June 2022.
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