A simplified food web with the words, Edwards Aquifer, Texas simplified food web. Producers are on the bottom of the web and include CLAMs and decaying plants. The primary consumers are comas springs dryopid beetle, water slater and cave shrimp and are found on top of the Producers box. Secondary consumers include Peck's cave amphipod and is found on top of the primary consumer box. Tertiary consumers is the Texas blind salamander and is found on top of the secondary consumer box. .
Photo By/Credit

Dante Fenolio, San Antonio Zoo and John and Kendra Abbott/Abbott Nature Photography

Date Shot/Created
08/05/2024
Media Usage Rights/License
Some Rights Reserved
Image
Cave shrimp credit Dante Fenolio, San Antonio Zoo
Texas blind salamander, Peck’s cave amphipod, water slater, and Comal Springs dryopid beetle, all credit to John and Kendra Abbott/Abbott Nature Photography
Facility
Austin Ecological Services Field Office
Ecosystem
Caves and Karst
River/stream
Urban
Species
Eurycea rathbuni
Stygobromus pecki
Palaemonetes antrorum
Lirceolus smithii
Stygoparnus comalensis
Subject tags
Aquatic animals
At-risk species