It is an underground species known only from waters associated with the Floridan aquifer.
aquifer | Artesian aquifer | Ogallala Aquifer | Edwards Aquifer | Floridan aquifer | Floridan Aquifer |
The park draws its name from Edward Ball, the DuPont family financial manager who sold the park lands to the state of Florida and its contained Wakulla Springs, one of the world's largest and deepest first-order freshwater springs and an exit point of the Floridan Aquifer.
The county contains various sinkhole lakes such as Lake Barco where unconsolidated deposits on the surface have slumped into the highly soluble limestone of the upper Floridan aquifer.