NC Physiographic Region(s): mountains and western piedmont (foothills); higher elevations

River Basin(s): Little Tennessee, French Broad, Watauga, New, Savannah, Broad, upper Catawba, upper Yadkin-Pee Dee

Adult Habitat: “seepage areas in mountain streams” (Hobbs Jr. 1989); “mountain seeps and headwaters of small mountain streams; tertiary burrower” (Williams and Bivens 1996); “frequently in burrows and tunnels in rock debris of cascading areas of streams” (NHP ICAS 1999); fast-flowing, clear water; under rocks in riffles; in simple shallow burrows along banks

Juvenile Habitat: n/a

Reproductive Season: may have extended breeding season (Cooper and Braswell 1995)

Species associates: C. (C.) sp. A, others

Conservation status:  not protected

Identification references: Hobbs Jr. 1989, Hobbs Jr. 1991

Taxonomic Description:

body shape: cylindrical
coloration:  orangish-tan; dark brown; bright red morph
spines: lacking
rostrum: very short, blunt, with parallel margins; no marginal spines; acumen very short or nonexistent; rounded or squared in shape; somewhat excavate or ladel-like dorsally
areola: medium-wide
chelae: subrectangular; posessing long setae all over (not clumped); one row of large tubercles on mesial margin of palm; lacking gape between fingers
other characteristics: body somewhat hairy
form I male gonopod: corneous central projection curving caudally (at an angle greater than 90 degrees to main shaft) and touching or nearly touching mesial process; no subapical notch; mesial process slightly longer than central projection and tapering and triangular in shape with caudal margin at or greater than 90 degrees to main shaft and cephalic margin greater than 90 degrees to main shaft