No records
An Annotated Bibliography of the Zoology of Tennessee and the Tennessee Valley Region (1939)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
1939-01-01
An Annotated Bibliography of the Zoology of Tennessee and the Tennessee Valley Region.
NEW CAVE BEETLES (CARABIDAE, TRECHINI} FROM TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY (1959)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
1959-01-01
NEW CAVE BEETLES (CARABIDAE, TRECHINI) FROM TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY.
New Species Groups of Pseudanophthalmus from the Central Basin of Tennessee (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae) (1980)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
1980-07-01
New Species Groups of Pseudanophthalmus from the Central Basin of Tennessee (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae).
Hydrogeologic investigations of contaminant movement in karst aquifers in the vicinity of a train derailment near Lewisburg, Tennessee (1994)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
1994-08-16
Analysis of contaminant flow through a karst aquifer following the train derailment in Lewisburg, TN, USA.
Karst Environmental Symposium Proceedings: GROUNDWATER TRACING FOR SPRING BASIN DELINEATION IN A FLOOD - PRONE AREA OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE (1997)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
1997-10-31
Karst Environmental Symposium Proceedings: GROUNDWATER TRACING FOR SPRING BASIN DELINEATION IN A FLOOD - PRONE AREA OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE . Snail Shell description begins on page 50.
Monitoring Trends in Bat Populations of the US and Territories: Problems and Prospects (USGS 2003)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
2003-01-01
Monitoring Trends in Bat Populations of the US and Territories: Problems and Prospects (USGS 2003)
A Classification and Checklist of the Genus Pseudanophthalmus jeannel (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae) (2004)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
2004-01-01
A Classification and Checklist of the Genus Pseudanophthalmus Jeannel (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae). Species analysis in caves of TN, AL, and GA, along with analysis of above ground features in the Appalachia and Allegheny Plateau region.
DISTRIBUTION AND RELATIVE ABUNDANCE OF TENNESSEE C AVE SALAMANDERS ( GYRINOPHILUS PALLEUCUS AND GYRINOPHILUS GULOLINEATUS ) WITH AN EMPHASIS ON TENNESSEE POPULATIONS (2007)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
2007-12-28
Determining the distribution and relative abundance of the Tennessee Cave Salamander across their known habitat. Better understanding the range and populations of the Tennessee Cave Salamander and species status.
Recent divergence with gene flow in Tennessee cave salamanders (Plethodontidae: Gyrinophilus ) inferred from gene genealogies (2008)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
2008-01-11
Recent divergence with gene flow in Tennessee cave salamanders (Plethodontidae: Gyrinophilus ) inferred from gene genealogies.
THE MINERALOGY AND TRACE ELEMENT CHEMISTRY OF BLACK MANGANESE OXIDE DEPOSITS FROM CAVES (2009)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
2009-08-01
THE MINERALOGY AND TRACE ELEMENT CHEMISTRY OF BLACK MANGANESE OXIDE DEPOSITS FROM CAVES.
Status and Distribution of the Amblyopsid Fishes Forbesichthys agassizii and Typhlichthys subterraneus in Tennessee (2010)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
2010-01-12
Status and Distribution of the Amblyopsid Fishes Forbesichthys agassizii and Typhlichthys subterraneus in Tennessee.
Faunal remains from an archaic period cave in the Southeastern United States (2016)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
2016-06-03
Faunal remains from an archaic period cave in the Southeastern United States.
Snail Shell Microbial Ecology (2018)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
2018-01-28
Snail Shell Microbial Ecology (2018)
Joint Controls on Cave Formation and Morphology (PowerPoint) (Date Not Available)
Snail Shell Cave Preserve
2022-09-20
Joint Controls on Cave Formation and Morphology of Snail Shell Cave powerpoint presentation.
No records
North American Triclad Turbellaria XI. New, Chiefly Cavernicolous, Planarians (1945)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1945-09-01
North American Triclad Turbellaria XI. New, Chiefly Cavernicolous, Planarian.
Checklist of Macroscopic Troglobitic Organisms of the United States (1960)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1960-07-01
Systematic classification and analysis of macroscopic troglobitic organisms of the United States.
The Range of the Cave Salamander, Eurycea Lucifuga Rafinesque, in Alabama (1962)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1962-10-17
The Range of the Cave Salamander, Eurycea Lucifuga Rafinesque, in Alabama.
Origins and Affinities of the Troglobitic Crayfishes of W North America ' (Decapoda: Astacidae) i II. Genus Orconect (1972)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1972-01-01
Origins and Affinities of the Troglobitic Crayfishes of W North America (Decapoda: Astacidae) i II. Genus Orconect.
A SYSTEMATIC REVISION AND THE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF THE PTOMAPHAGUS (ADELOPS) BEETLES OF NORTH AMERICA (COLEOPTERA; LEIODIDAE; CATOPINAE), WITH EMPHASIS ON CAVE-INHABITING SPECIES (1973)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1973-05-01
A SYSTEMATIC REVISION AND THE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF THE PTOMAPHAGUS (ADELOPS) BEETLES OF NORTH AMERICA (COLEOPTERA; LEIODIDAE; CATOPINAE), WITH EMPHASIS ON CAVE-INHABITING SPECIES.
A Review of the Troglobitic Decapod Crustaceans of the Americas (1977)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1977-01-01
A analysis of cave dependent crustaceans in North America. Limrock Blowing Cave is referenced briefly.
The Systematics and Biology of the Cave-Crickets of the North American Tribe Hadenoecini (Orthoptera Saltatoria: Ensifera: Rhaphidophoridae: Dolichopodinae) 1978
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1978-08-01
The Systematics and Biology of the Cave-Crickets of the North American Tribe Hadenoecini (Orthoptera Saltatoria: Ensifera: Rhaphidophoridae: Dolichopodinae)
SYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION, AND ZOOGEOGRAPHY OF THE CA VERNICOLOUS CAMPODEIDS OF THE GENUS LITOCAMPA (DIPLURA: CAMPODEIDAE) IN THE UNITED STATES (1981)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1981-04-01
SYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION, AND ZOOGEOGRAPHY OF THE CAVERNICOLOUS CAMPODEIDS OF THE GENUS LITOCAMPA (DIPLURA: CAMPODEIDAE) IN THE UNITED STATES.
The Spider Family Nesticidae (Aranae) in North America, Central America, and the West Indies (1984)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1984-01-01
The Spider Family Nesticidae (Aranae) in North America, Central America, and the West Indies (1984)
The distribution and evolution of cavernicolous Ptomaphagus beetles in the southeastern United States (Coleoptera; Leiodidae; Cholevinae) with new species and records (1984)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1984-05-16
The distribution and evolution of cavernicolous Ptomaphagus beetles in the southeastern United States (Coleoptera; Leiodidae; Cholevinae) with new species and records.
MOLECULAR EVOLUTIONARY DIVERGENCE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN CAVE CRICKETS. II. DNA-DNA HYBRIDIZATION (1987)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1987-06-19
MOLECULAR EVOLUTIONARY DIVERGENCE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN CAVE CRICKETS. II. DNA-DNA HYBRIDIZATION
MOLECULAR EVOLUTIONARY DIVERGENCE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN CAVE CRICKETS. I. ALLOZYME VARIATION (1987)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1987-12-17
MOLECULAR EVOLUTIONARY DIVERGENCE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN CAVE CRICKETS. I. ALLOZYME VARIATION.
The Cave Fauna of Alabama: Terrestrial Invertebrates (Excluding Insects) (1989)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1989-06-01
The Cave Fauna of Alabama: Terrestrial Invertebrates (Excluding Insects)
Cave Fauna of Alabama: The Insects
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1995-06-01
Cave dependent insects of Alabama
A Revision of the Appalachian Spider Genus Liocranoides (Araneae: Tengellidae) (1999)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
1999-12-08
A Revision of the Appalachian Spider Genus Liocranoides (Araneae: Tengellidae). Re-evaluation of the genus Liocranoides based on new information to better describe the species.
Subterranean phylogeography of freshwater crayfishes shows extensive gene flow and surprisingly large population sizes (2005)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2005-06-01
Subterranean phylogeography of freshwater crayfishes shows extensive gene flow and surprisingly large population sizes.
Relationship Between Physiochemical Factors and Distribution of Stygobitic Crayfishes in Southeastern Caves (2006)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2006-01-01
Relationship Between Physiochemical Factors and Distribution of Stygobitic Crayfishes in Southeastern Caves.
Surface to subsurface freshwater connections: phylogeographic and habitat analyses of Cambarus tenebrosus , a facultative cave-dwelling crayfish (2006)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2006-04-26
Surface to subsurface freshwater connections: phylogeographic and habitat analyses of Cambarus tenebrosus, a facultative cave-dwelling crayfish.
PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSES OF OBLIGATE AND FACULTATIVE CAVE CRAYFISH SPECIES ON TH E CUMBERLAND PLATEAU OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS (2006)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2006-07-12
PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSES OF OBLIGATE AND FACULTATIVE CAVE CRAYFISH SPECIES ON THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS.
Project 3: Assessment of population size, age structure and growth rates for cave inhabiting crayfish in Alabama 2008
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2008-09-30
Project 3: Assessment of population size, age structure and growth rates for cave inhabiting crayfish in Alabama.
Caves as Islands: Population Genetics of Nesticus barri (Araneae: Nesticidae) (2009)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2009-04-29
Genetic analysis of Nesticus barri from various locations to determine if there are genetic differences between populations.
THE INFLUENCE OF ENERGY AVAILABILITY ON POPULATION - , COMMUNITY - , AND ECOSYSTEM - LEVEL PROCESSES IN CAVE STREAM ECOSYSTEMS (2012)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2012-01-01
THE INFLUENCE OF ENERGY AVAILABILITY ON POPULATION, COMMUNITY, AND ECOSYSTEM - LEVEL PROCESSES IN CAVE STREAM ECOSYSTEMS.
Re-examining extreme longevity of the cave crayfish Orconectes australis using new mark–recapture data: a lesson on the limitations of iterative size-at-age models (2012)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2012-01-01
Re-examining extreme longevity of the cave crayfish Orconectes australis using new mark–recapture data: a lesson on the limitations of iterative size-at-age models.
Quantitative food web analysis supports the energy‑limitation hypothesis in cave stream ecosystems (2014)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2014-09-14
Quantitative food web analysis supports the energy‑limitation hypothesis in cave stream ecosystems.
Diversity and Conservation of the Southern Cavefish, Typhlichthys subterraneus (2016)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2016-08-06
Evaluation of the diversity of the Southern Cavefish, Typhlichthys subterraneus, and the implications for conservation.
Invertebrate and Vertebrate Cave Fauna Records for the Appalachian Valley and Ridge (2017)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2017-01-01
Assessment of sampling gaps when surveying for cave invertebrate and vertebrate of the Appalachian Valley and Ridge province.
2017 Summary Report for SCCi Research Permit no. 1004 (2017)
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2017-01-01
2017 Summary Report for SCCi: Limrock Cave macro biota diversity survey.
Body shape variation within the Southern Cavefish, Typhlichthys subterraneus (Percopsiformes: Amblyopsidae) 2017
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2017-02-20
Body shape variation within the Southern Cavefish, Typhlichthys subterraneus (Percopsiformes: Amblyopsidae). Analysis of differences in the body shape of various cave fish specimen to better describe the diversity of the species.
Blindly Seeking the Blind: Assessing the Efficacy of an Environmental Dna (Edna) Metabarcoding Approach For The Detection of Subterranean Crayfish 2021
Limrock Blowing Cave Preserve
2021-12-08
Blindly Seeking the Blind: Assessing the Efficacy of an Environmental Dna (Edna) Metabarcoding Approach For The Detection of Subterranean Crayfish - Nathaniel Sturm
No records
STUDIES ON THE CAVERNICOLE PTOMAPHAGUS OF THE UNITED STATES (COLEOPTERA: CATOPIDAE) (1963)
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
1962-07-25
STUDIES ON THE CAVERNICOLE PTOMAPHAGUS OF THE UNITED STATES (COLEOPTERA: CATOPIDAE).
SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF FOREST LITTER ADELOPSIS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS* (COLEOPTERA: LEIODIDAE; CATOPINAE) (1978)
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
1978-01-01
SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF FOREST LITTER ADELOPSIS IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS* (COLEOPTERA: LEIODIDAE CATOPINAE).
Reassessment of the Historical and Search for New Localities of the Tennessee Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus) in Alabama (2000)
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2000-11-01
Reassessment of the Historical and Search for New Localities of the Tennessee Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus) in Alabama.
GENESIS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF TUMBLING ROCK CAVE, A VALLEY WALL CONDUIT IN JACKSON COUNTY , ALABAMA (2002)
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2002-04-04
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE GENESIS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF TUMBLING ROCK CAVE, A VALLEY WALL CONDUIT IN JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA (2002)
THE CAVE-INHABITING ROVE BEETLES OF THE UNITED STATES (COLEOPTERA; STAPHYLINIDAE; EXCLUDING ALEOCHARINAE AND PSELAPHINAE): DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS (2003)
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2003-01-01
THE CAVE-INHABITING ROVE BEETLES OF THE UNITED STATES (COLEOPTERA; STAPHYLINIDAE; EXCLUDING ALEOCHARINAE AND PSELAPHINAE): DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS.
The United States Saltpeter Cave Survey, 2006 (2006)
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2006-01-01
The United States Saltpeter Cave Survey, 2006
Molecular taxonomy in the dark: Evolutionary history, phylogeography, and diversity of cave cray W sh in the subgenus Aviticambarus , genus Cambarus (2007)
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2006-07-12
Molecular taxonomy in the dark: Evolutionary history, phylogeography, and diversity of cave crayfish in the subgenus Aviticambarus, genus Cambarus. 2007
The milliped family Trichopetalidae, Part 2: The genera Trichopetalum, Zygonopus and Scoterpes (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida, Cleidogonoidea) (2010)
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2010-02-26
The milliped family Trichopetalidae, Part 2: The genera Trichopetalum, Zygonopus, and Scoterpes (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida, Cleidogonoidea).
An Annotated Catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic Region (Continental North America North of Mexico)
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2017-01-01
An annotated catalog of the 38 genera and 382 species of Leiodidae known to occur in the Neartic Region of North America and Mexico.
Pseudoscorpion Collection TR: Report on Stephen Research Trip
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2018-01-26
Pseudoscorpion Collection TR: Report on Stephen Research Trip (2018)
2010-01_TR_SurprisePit_Gates_Application.doc
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2023-07-17
Special Use and 2010 Research Permits
2010-01_TumblingRock_Gates_MOA.doc
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2023-07-17
White_Inner_Sanctum_Dome_Climb_MOA.pdf
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2023-07-17
Saker TR Great Hall of Mysteries Vertical Exploration Proj_MOA_executed.pdf
Tumbling Rock Cave Preserve
2023-07-17
No records
THE ROBUSTUS GROUP IN THE GENUS PSEUDANOPHTHALMUS (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE: TRECHINI) (1962)
Wolf River Cave Preserve
1962-12-01
THE ROBUSTUS GROUP IN THE GENUS PSEUDANOPHTHALMUS (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE: TRECHINI) (1962)
KARST LANDFORMS AND DRAINAGE BASIN EVOLUTION IN THE OBEY RIVER BASIN, NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE, U.S.A. (1983)
Wolf River Cave Preserve
1983-01-01
KARST LANDFORMS AND DRAINAGE BASIN EVOLUTION IN THE OBEY RIVER BASIN, NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE, U.S.A. (1983)
A LATE TERTIARY ORIGIN FOR MULTILEVEL CAVES ALONG THE WESTERN ESCARPMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU, TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY, ESTABLISHED BY COSMOGENIC 26 AL AND 10 BE (2004)
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2004-08-01
Cosmogenic burial dating of quartzose cave sediments deposited in multilevel caves beneath the western margin of the Cumberland Plateau dates ~5.7 Ma of cave development in step with episodic incision of the Upper Cumberland River.
2005 Analysis of Cave biota and Diversity Across the Cumberland Plateau (2005) (NO TITLE ON PAPER)
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2005-01-01
2005 Analysis of Cave biota and Diversity Across the Cumberland Plateau (2005). Goal of this biological survey is to enhance the understanding of cave dependent species in the Cumberland Project Areas.
A new chronology for the age of Appalachian erosional surfaces determined by cosmogenic nuclides in cave sediments (2007)
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2007-01-01
A new chronology for the age of Appalachian erosional surfaces determined by cosmogenic nuclides in cave sediments. Burial dating using differential decay in clastic cave sediments reveals more than 5 millions years of landscape development underground.
Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis) Draft Recovery Plan: First Revision (2007)
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2007-04-01
Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis) Draft Recovery Plan: First Revision (2007)
An empirical stream power formulation for knickpoint retreat in Appalachian Plateau fluviokarst (2007)
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2007-06-13
Hydrologically abandoned caves on tributaries of the Upper Cumberland River, TN, USA record a wave of river incision that advanced up the drainage basin in the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene. Geomorphic and geologic evidence suggest that incision occurred as a migrating knickpoint generated by sudden base-level lowering.
TAXONOMIC REVISION OF CAVE CRAYFISHES IN THE GENUS ORCONECTES , SUBGENUS ORCONECTES (DECAPODA: CAMBARIDAE) ALONG THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU, INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES, ORCONECTES BARRI (2008)
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2008-01-01
TAXONOMIC REVISION OF CAVE CRAYFISHES IN THE GENUS ORCONECTES , SUBGENUS ORCONECTES (DECAPODA: CAMBARIDAE) ALONG THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU, INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES, ORCONECTES BARRI (2008)
WHITE - NOSE SYNDROME MONITORING AND RESPONSE REPORT FOR TENNESSEE (2010)
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2010-01-01
WHITE - NOSE SYNDROME MONITORING AND RESPONSE REPORT FOR TENNESSEE (2010)
2011 White-nose Syndrome Monitoring and Bat Population Survey of Hibernacula in Tennessee
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2011-05-01
2011 White-nose Syndrome Monitoring and Bat Population Survey of Hibernacula in Tennessee. Establishing protocols and guidelines for continued monitoring of historic bat hibernacula in the state of Tennessee to monitor the spread and effect of White Nose Syndrome.
2012 White - Nose Syndrome Disease Surveillance and Bat Population Monitoring Report A Report of the Tennessee WNS Response Cooperators
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2012-07-01
2012 White - Nose Syndrome Disease Surveillance and Bat Population Monitoring Report A Report of the Tennessee WNS Response Cooperators. WNS status report from 74 sites in 37 counties across Tennessee.
2013 Tennessee Bat Population Monitoring and White Nose Syndrome Surveillance (2013)
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2013-01-01
2013 Tennessee Bat Population Monitoring and White Nose Syndrome Surveillance. Summary of the findings from the 2013 survey of TN counties from WNS.
2014 Bat Population Monitoring and White Nose Syndrome Surveillance
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2014-01-01
2014 Bat Population Monitoring and White Nose Syndrome Surveillance in the state of Tennessee.
Cory Holliday, TNC Bat Census 2002 - 2022
Wolf River Cave Preserve
2022-01-24
The Nature Conservancy bat census data summary from 1986 - 2022 regular monitoring beginning in the 2000s.
No records
Assessment of the Population Status of the Gray Bat (Myotis grisescens) Fern 2005 - 2007
Fern Cave Preserve
2007-10-01
Assessment of the Population Status of the Gray Bat (Myotis grisescens) from 2005 to 2007 across the southeast, pertaining to Fern Cave, Jackson County, AL.
2019 Winter Bat Counts (Fern)
Fern Cave Preserve
2019-02-13
Preliminary report from the 2019 Winter Bat Counts at Fern Cave by USFWS and SCCi.
Fern Cave Survey summary 2022
Fern Cave Preserve
2023-01-23
Update -- Fern Cave survey project notes, line plot
Fern Cave Survey trip report 01/01/23
Fern Cave Preserve
2023-01-23
Fern Cave Survey 1 JAN 23 trip report
Fern Cave Survey trip report 12/31/22
Fern Cave Preserve
2023-01-23
Fern Cave Survey trip report 31 JAN 22
Fern Cave Survey trip report 12/30/22
Fern Cave Preserve
2023-01-23
Fern Cave Survey trip report 30 DEC 22
Fern Cave Survey line plot review Jan 2023
Fern Cave Preserve
2023-01-23
Fern Cave Survey line plot review Jan 2023
Fern Cave: A Hotspot of Subterranean Biodiversity in the Interior Low Plateau Karst Region of Alabama in the Southeastern United States
Fern Cave Preserve
2023-05-06
Abstract: The Fern Cave System, developed in the western escarpment of the Southern Cumberland Plateau of the Interior Low Plateau karst region in Northeastern Alabama, USA, is a global hotspot of cave-limited biodiversity as well as home to the largest winter hibernaculum for the federally endangered Gray Bat (Myotis grisescens). We combined the existing literature, museum accessions, and database occurrences with new observations from bioinventory efforts conducted in 2018–2022 to generate an updated list of troglobiotic and stygobiotic species for the Fern Cave System. Our list of cave-limited fauna totals twenty-seven species, including nineteen troglobionts and eight stygobionts. Two pseudoscorpions are endemic to the Fern Cave System: Tyrannochthonius torodei and Alabamocreagris mortis. The exceptional diversity at Fern Cave is likely associated with several factors, such as the high dispersal potential of cave fauna associated with expansive karst exposures along the Southern Cumberland Plateau, high surface productivity, organic input from a large bat colony, favorable climate throughout the Pleistocene, and location within a larger regional hotspot of subterranean biodiversity. Nine species are of conservation concern, including the recently discovered Alabama cave shrimp Palaemonias alabamae, because of their small range sizes, few occurrences, and several potential threats.
