26 Richard Franz, Judy Bauer and Tom Morris 



REFERENCES: Franz 1982 (conservation status); Franz and Lee 

 1982 (evolution, distribution, records); Hobbs 1940a (original description), 

 19A2b (description, records); Hobbs et. al. 1977 (description, records); 

 Hobbs and Hobbs 1991 (key); Hobbs III 1992 (photograph). 



Procambarus (Ortmannicus) lucifugus alachua (Hobbs) 

 ALACHUA LIGHT-FLEEING CAVE CRAYFISH 



Cambarus lucifugus alachua Hobbs, 1940fl. Proceedings of U.S. 

 National Museum 89(3097):402. TYPE LOCALITY: a small cave. 

 Hog Sink, about 16.7 km (10 mi) west of Gainesville, Alachua County, 

 Florida. Holotype, allotype, "morphotype" (USNM 76592), 50 paratypes 

 (USNM, FSBC), H. H. Hobbs Jr. (coll., holotype), 30 November 1937. 



Procambarus lucifugus alachua. — Hobbs, 1942^:343 (by implication). 



Procambarus {Ortmannicus) alachua. — Hobbs, 1972:10. 



OTHER COMMON NAMES: Florida Cave Crayfish (in part). 



DISTRIBUTION: OCALA FAUNA (Upper Suwannee). Restricted 

 to groundwater habitats in the Western Valley (Newberry Karst Plain) 

 of western Alachua and northeastern Levy counties, Florida. 



SPECIFIC LOCALITIES: Alachua County: Bat Cave (USNM), 

 Crumbly Sink (USNM), Cueva Fria (USNM), Dudley Cave (USNM), 

 Goat Sink (USNM), Hog Sink-type locality (USNM), Martin's Cave 

 (Relyea and Sutton 1974), Protheroe Sink (Warren 1961), Seven Chimneys 

 Sink (RF), Squirrel Chimney (USNM), Tusk Cave (USNM). Levy County: 

 Gunpowder Cave (USNM), Williston Blue Sink (USNM). 



ETYMOLOGY: The subspecific name refers to Alachua County, 

 Florida, the area where most of the specimens of this race have been 

 collected (RF). 



REMARKS: This crayfish is a member of the lucifugus complex 

 (Franz and Lee 1982). 



REFERENCES: Franz 1982 (conservation status); Franz and Lee 

 1982 (evolution, distribution, records, photograph); Hobbs 1940^ (original 

 description), \9A2b (description, records); Hobbs et al. 1977 (description, 

 records); Hobbs and Hobbs 1991 (key); Holt 19736 (CI as commensal); 

 Lee 1969c (as prey). 



Procambarus I. lucifugus X /. alachua 

 Intergrade populations of LIGHT-FLEEING CAVE CRAYFISHES 



DISTRIBUTION: OCALA FAUNA (Lower Suwannee and Marion). 

 The two intergrade populations appear isolated from one another and 

 from the P. I. lucifugus population on the western side of the Withlacoochee 



