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  6. ›Decapods, Isopods, and allies
  7. ›Amphipods, Isopods, and Allies
  8. ›Isopods
  9. ›Asellotes
  10. ›Waterslaters and allies
  11. ›Freshwater Isopods
  12. ›Caecidotea
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Nickajack Cave Isopod

Caecidotea nickajackensis

Caecidotea nickajackensis is an extinct species of isopod crustacean in the family Asellidae. It was endemic to a single cave in Tennessee, and was thought to have been exterminated when that cave was flooded in 1967 by the building of the Nickajack Dam.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 96397.