Tags: Crustacean.
The Kentucky cave shrimp Palaemonias ganteri is an eyeless troglobite shrimp. It lives in caves in Barren County Edmonson County Hart County and Warren County Kentucky. The shrimp’s shell has no pigment; the species is nearly transparent and closely resembles its nearest relative the Alabama cave shrimp.The habitat of the Kentucky cave shrimp is exclusively in underground streams of caves. It is endemic to the Mammoth Cave National Park region of central Kentucky.