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The northern zigzag salamander (Plethodon dorsalis) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the eastern United States and has been found in Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The northern zigzag salamander's natural habitat includes temperate forests, rocky areas, and caves.
The spotted-tail cave salamander (Eurycea lucifuga), a lungless salamander endemic to caves of the eastern United States Eurycea (of North America) and Speleomantes (of Italy and France) are two genera of lungless salamanders with so many individual species termed "cave salamanders" that the entire group is sometimes so designated.
Despite its name, the cave salamander is not restricted to caves, and may be found in forests near bluffs and rocky crevices and around springs, and also under moist rocks and logs. [5] [8] This species is found in Alabama, Arkansas [9] Illinois, [2] Missouri, [10] Kentucky, Virginia, [11] West Virginia, [2] Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas, Indiana ...
A troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is an animal species, or population of a species, strictly bound to underground habitats, such as caves.These are separate from species that mainly live in above-ground habitats but are also able to live underground (eutroglophiles), and species that are only cave visitors (subtroglophiles and trogloxenes). [1]
As larvae the western grotto salamander lives in springs and streams near cave entrances. [1] As adults, They migrate deep into the caves themselves and live out their lives underground. [1] They prefer waters between 5.5 and 16.5 °C, and feed on small, cave-dwelling invertebrates such as Gammarus, though they are also known to eat guano as well.
This category is for articles related to salamanders which have adapted to live within the ecological niche of caves The main article for this category is Cave salamander . Pages in category "Cave salamanders"
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Cave species dwelling in darkness lack pigmentation and have a translucent pink or pearlescent appearance. [8] Salamanders range in size from the minute salamanders, with a total length of 27 mm (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in), including the tail, to the Chinese giant salamander which reaches 1.8 m (6 ft