{"id":614,"date":"2017-06-11T19:12:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/?p=614"},"modified":"2017-06-11T19:12:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T19:12:58","slug":"niemiller-et-al-2016b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/references\/niemiller-et-al-2016b\/","title":{"rendered":"Niemiller et al. 2016b"},"content":{"rendered":"

Citation:<\/strong> Niemiller ML, Zigler KS, Hart PB, Kuhajda BR, Armbruster JW, Ayala BN, Engel AS (2016) First definitive record of a stygobiotic fish (Percopsiformes, Amblyopsidae, Typhlichthys<\/i>) from the Appalachians karst region in the eastern United States. Subterranean Biology 20: 39-50.<\/p>\n

Year:<\/strong> 2016<\/p>\n

Author(s):<\/strong> Niemiller ML, Zigler KS, Hart PB, Kuhajda BR, Armbruster JW, Ayala BN, Engel AS<\/p>\n

Journal:<\/strong> Subterranean Biology<\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> First definitive record of a stygobiotic fish (Percopsiformes<\/span><\/span>, Amblyopsidae<\/span><\/span>, Typhlichthys<\/span><\/span><\/i>) from the Appalachians karst region in the eastern United States<\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong> In the central and eastern United States, cavefishes have been known historically only from the Interior Low Plateau and Ozarks karst regions. Previously, cavefishes were unknown from the Appalachians karst region, which extends from southeastern New York southwestward into eastern Tennessee, northwestern Georgia, and northeastern Alabama. Here we report the discovery of a new population of the amblyopsid cavefish Typhlichthys<\/span> subterraneus<\/span><\/span><\/i> Girard, 1859 from a cave in Catoosa County, Georgia, that significantly extends the known distribution of the species. The cave is located in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge physiographic province and Appalachians karst region, and represents the first definitive report of a stygobiotic fish from the Appalachians karst region. Genetic analyses of one mitochondrial and one nuclear locus from the cavefish indicate this population is closely allied with populations that occur along the western margins of Lookout and Fox mountains in Dade County, Georgia, and populations to the northwest in southern Marion County, Tennessee. It is likely that these populations are also related to those from Wills Valley, DeKalb County, Alabama. The distribution of this new population of T.<\/span> subterraneus<\/span><\/span><\/i> and its close allies pre-dates the emergence of a Tennessee-Coosa River drainage divide in the Pliocene. The potential exists to discover additional populations in caves within the Appalachians karst region in Catoosa County and northward into Hamilton County, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/strong> Appalachian Valley and Ridge, Catoosa County, cavefish, Cumberland Plateau, Georgia, range extension<\/p>\n

DOI:<\/strong> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3897\/subtbiol.20.9693<\/a><\/p>\n

Species: <\/strong>Typhlichthys subterraneus<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong> Crane Cave, Catoosa County, Georgia, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Citation: Niemiller ML, Zigler KS, Hart PB, Kuhajda BR, Armbruster JW, Ayala BN, Engel AS (2016) First definitive record of a stygobiotic fish (Percopsiformes, Amblyopsidae, Typhlichthys) from the Appalachians karst region in the eastern United States. Subterranean Biology 20: 39-50. Year: 2016 Author(s): Niemiller ML, Zigler KS, Hart PB, Kuhajda BR, Armbruster JW, Ayala BN, … Continue reading Niemiller et al. 2016b<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,67,74,75,68,69,70,76,49,72,73,30,71,77,29,56],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-references","tag-24","tag-appalachian-valley-and-ridge","tag-armbruster-jw","tag-ayala-bn","tag-catoosa-county","tag-cavefish","tag-cumberland-plateau","tag-engel-as","tag-georgia","tag-hart-pb","tag-kuhajda-br","tag-niemiller-ml","tag-range-extension","tag-subterranean-biology","tag-usa","tag-zigler-ks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.speleobiology.com\/sbd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}