Italian Endangered Groundwater Taxa According to IUCN Red List Categories (1994)

Harpacticoid Copepods
Esola spelaea ("L'Abisso" and "La Zinzulusa" caves, South Italy). Critically endangered.
Elaphoidella cvetkae (cave waters, North Italy). Endangered.
Nitocrella stochi (North Italy, caves). Vulnerable/D2

Calanoid Copepods
Troglodiaptomus sketi (cave waters, North Italy). Endangered.

Cyclopid Copepods
Metacyclops stammeri ("L'Abisso", "La Zinzulusa" and "Grotta dei Diavoli" caves, South Italy). Lower risk, near threatened.
Diacyclops tantalus (cave waters, North Italy). Endangered.
Diacyclops charon (cave waters, North Italy). Endangered.
Acanthocyclops venustus stammeri (cave and phreatic waters, North Italy). Endangered.
Speocyclops infernus (cave waters, South Italy). Endangered.

Ostracods
Pseudolimnocythere hypogaea (phreatic and cave waters, South Italy). Lower risk, near threatened.

Bathynellid Syncarids
Anthrobathynella stammeri (hyporheic habitat of the Adige river, NorthEast Italy). Critically endengered: high risk of extintion!

Thermosbaenaceans
Monodella stygicola ["L'Abisso" cave, wells near Bari, South Italy (unpublished data)]. Critically endangered.

Amphipods
Hadzia minuta ( "L'Abisso" cave, South Italy). Lower risk, near threatened.
Hadzia fragilis stochi (North Italy). Vulnerable/D2
Metaingolfiella mirabilis (phreatic waters, Salentine Peninsula, South Italy).Critically endangered.
Salentinella gracillima ("L'Abisso" and "La Zinzulusa" caves, South Italy).Lower risk, near threatened
Carinurella paradoxa (North Italy). Vulnerable/D2
Niphargus orcinus orcinus (central and South Italy). Vulnerable/D2
Niphargus stygius (South Italy). Vulnerable/D2
Niphargus timavi (North Italy). Vulnerable/D2

Microparasellid Isopods
Microcharon arganoi (phreatic waters, South Italy). Lower risk, near threatened.

Asellid Isopods
Asellus aquaticus cavernicolus (North Italy). Vulnerable/D2

Decapods
Thyphlocaris salentina [cave waters, "La Zinzulusa", "Buco dei Diavoli" and "L'Abisso" caves, wells near Bari South Italy (unpublished data)]. Lower risk, endangered.

Mysids
Stygiomysis hydruntina (cave and phreatic waters, South Italy). Lower risk, near threatened
Spelaeomysis bottazzii (cave and phreatic waters, South Italy). Vulnerable.

Newsletter of the Endangered Species Program
Endangered and Extinct World Species List
1996 IUCN Red List of Threatned Animals