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The name 'cave salamander' can be confusing because the term is also used more generally to describe cave-dwelling salamanders. Despite its name, the cave salamander is much less cave adapted than other cave-dwelling salamanders like the olm or Texas blind salamander. Unlike the more cave-adapted species, the cave salamander is brightly ...
A cave salamander is a type of ... to an existence in caves, as some species that don't live in caves are also paedomorphic. ... E. lucifuga lives near the entrance ...
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"
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.
G. palleucus lives in caves and is dependent on the quality of the water in the streams that flow through them. Threats it faces include pollution, siltation, flooding, increased water flow and the filling of sinkholes and dumping of trash. This salamander is known from about two dozen sites but probably occurs in other cave systems.
Eurycea longicauda, commonly known as the long-tailed salamander [4] or longtail salamander, [5] is a species of lungless salamander native to the Appalachian Region of the eastern United States. It is a " cave salamander " that frequents twilight zones of caves and also inhabits springs and surrounding forest.
Speleomantes strinatii, the French cave salamander, North-west Italian cave salamander, or Strinati's cave salamander is a small (10-12.5 cm long) species of salamander found in northwest Italy and southeast France. [1] It is very similar in appearance to the Italian cave salamander (Speleomantes italicus), but has a paler belly. [2]