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The Tennessee cave salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae, endemic to the Appalachian Mountains in the United States. [1] [3] Its natural habitats are streams in caves. It is threatened by habitat loss. [1]
Pseudotriton is a genus of salamanders in the family Plethodontidae. They are endemic to eastern and southern United States, from New York south to Florida and west to southern Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and eastern Louisiana. They are commonly known as red salamanders or mud salamanders. [1]
Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides, the Big Mouth Cave salamander, a lungless salamander, is a subspecies of the Tennessee cave salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus). The Big Mouth Cave salamander lives in Big Mouth Cave and other caves in the Elk River drainage basin in Grundy County and Coffee County , Tennessee .
Found only in Hickory Nut Gorge, a 14-mile-long gorge in the Blue Ridge Mountains roughly 18 miles from Asheville, these salamanders were originally discovered to be an individual species by ...
Plethodon is a genus of salamanders in the family Plethodontidae. They are commonly known as woodland salamanders. [2] All members of the genus are endemic to North America (Canada and the United States). [2] They have no aquatic larval stage. In some species, such as the red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus). [3] Young hatch in the adult ...
The Wyoming Toad Conservation Area and the Paint Rock River National Wildlife Refuge in Tennessee are the result of “decades-long, locally led efforts to conserve habitat for species while ...
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P. teyahalee is endemic to the southern Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States, where it is found within the states of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee, including in the Great Smoky Mountains. [1] [2] The salamander's altitudinal range extends to 1,550 m. [1] Its natural habitat is temperate Appalachian ...