Caves and their Faunas in Florida and South Georgia 53 



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Fig. 3. Distribution of the assemblages associated with the Ocala 

 Fauna. 



Apalachicola Fauna. 



Species List — **Caecidotea hobbsi, *Cambarus cryptodytes, 

 Pseudosinella pecki, '^Islandiana sp., *Haideotriton wallacei. Three 

 of five taxa associated with the Apalachicola Fauna are precinctive. 

 This faunal region contains the only known terrestrial troglobites in 

 the state. The Apalachicola Fauna occurs in two segments, one in the 

 Marianna Lowlands of Jackson County, Florida, and the other in the 

 Dougherty Plain along the Flint River in Decatur and Dougherty coun- 

 ties, Georgia (Fig. 4) (Beck and Arden 1984, Lane 1989). Franz and 

 Lee (1982) suggested that the Marianna species were associated with 

 caves that were developed in the Ocala Group limestones at or near the 



