Stygobromus araeus
Species of crustacean
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Stygobromus araeus, the Tidewater interstitial amphipod,[1][2] is a phreatobite species of amphipod in family Crangonyctidae. It is native to Virginia and North Carolina[2] in the United States.
| Stygobromus araeus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Family: | Crangonyctidae |
| Genus: | Stygobromus |
| Species: | S. araeus |
| Binomial name | |
| Stygobromus araeus (Holsinger, 1969) | |
The main threat to its survival is abstraction of, and pollution to, the groundwater caused by the rapidly expanding urban area of Tidewater, Virginia.[2]
