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The Cokendolpher cave harvestman, Texella cokendolpheri, is a species of cave-living harvestman (daddy longlegs) native to Bexar County, Texas. The original common name, the Robber Baron Cave harvestman, stemmed from the cave which the harvestman inhabits. The scientific name and the current common name honor the prominent arachnologist, James Cokendolpher, who identified the species.[1] T. cokendolpheri is one of twenty-eight species within the North American harvestman genus Texella. The first formal description of the harvestman took place in 1992[1] and the species’ listing under the Endangered Species Act followed eight years later.[2] Current threats to the species include habitat loss and interactions with invasive fire ants.[3]
| Texella cokendolpheri | |
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Conservation status
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 Endangered (ESA) | |
 Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[4] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Family: | Phalangodidae |
| Genus: | Texella |
| Species: | T. cokendolpheri
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| Binomial name | |
| Texella cokendolpheri Ubick and Briggs, 1992
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- ^ a b Ubick, Darrell; Briggs, Thomas (December 1992). "The Harvestman Family Phalangodidae. 3. Revision of Texella Goodnight and Goodnight (Opiliones: Laniatores)" (PDF). Studies on the Cave and Endogean Fauna of North America II. Texas Memorial Museum: 155.
- ^ Petition to M. Spear, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jan 9 1991,https://ecos.fws.gov/docs/tess/petition/219.pdf
- ^ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, "Bexar County Karst Invertebrates Recovery Plan", August 2011, https://ecos.fws.gov/docs/recovery_plan/Final%202001%20Bexar%20Co%20Invertebrates%20Rec%20Plan_1.pdf
- ^ "Texella cokendolpheri". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 29 March 2023.