Antrolana lira NatureServe Explorer Species Reports — NatureServe Explorer is a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals and ecological communtities of the U.S and Canada. NatureServe Explorer provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals too. NatureServe Explorer is a product of NatureServe in collaboration with the Natural Heritage Network.
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FWS Digital Media Library — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Digital Library is a searchable collection of selected images, historical artifacts, audio clips, publications, and video.Antrolana lira is a species of crustacean in family Cirolanidae, the only species in the genus Antrolana. It is an unpigmented troglobite with no eyes, reaching a maximum length of 0.7 inches. The only member of the genus Antrolana, the Madison Cave isopod, A. lira, is a white, shrimp-like crustacean lacking eyes. This cave-adapted (troglobitic) isopod grows up to 0.4 in (1.02 cm) in length, making it among the longer, and the largest, subterranean isopods in the eastern United States. Females are slightly larger than males. The body is flattened, compact, and approximately three times longer than it is broad.
