Coffin Cave mold Beetle

Coffin Cave mold Beetle
Coffin Cave mold Beetle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Staphylinidae
Subfamily: Pselaphinae
Genus: Batrisodes
Species: B. texanus
Binomial name
Batrisodes texanus
Chandler

The Coffin Cave Mold Beetle (Batrisodes texanus) is a small troglobite less than 1/8 of an inch long. They are found exclusively in small caves in Williamson County, Texas. The Coffin Cave Mold Beetle has no eyes, it has no need for them in the eternal darkness under the rocks and silt where it lives.[1] The US Fish and Wildlife Service considers the Coffin Cave mold beetle to be an endangered species.[2]

References

  1. ^ Texas Parks and Wildlife : Coffin Cave Mold Beetle
  2. ^ Species profile : Coffin Cave Mold Beetle

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