Cave salamander - Wikipedia
A cave salamander is a type of salamander that primarily or exclusively inhabits caves, a group that includes several species. Some of these animals have developed special, even extreme, adaptations to their subterranean environments.
ADW: Eurycea lucifuga: INFORMATION
Cave salamanders are troglophiles, meaning they can live entirely in caves and depend on cave-like conditions to complete their life cycles. Cave salamanders are mainly found in moist, dark places such as caves, or under rocks and logs.
Cave Salamander - Missouri Department of Conservation
The cave salamander is a common amphibian of the Ozark Plateau. It lives in caves, springs, and rocky streams. Recognize it by its normally bright orange skin dotted with dark brown or black spots.
The olm: the blind cave salamander that lives to 100 - National …
Jul 20, 2010 · It’s the olm, a blind, cave-dwelling salamander, also called the proteus and the “human fish”, for its pale, pinkish skin. It has spent so long adapting to life in caves that it’s mostly blind,...
Olm - Wikipedia
This cave salamander is most notable for its adaptations to a life of complete darkness in its underground habitat. The olm's eyes are undeveloped, leaving it blind, while its other senses, particularly those of smell and hearing, are acutely developed.
Speleomantes - Wikipedia
Speleomantes, or European cave salamanders, are a genus of salamander in the family Plethodontidae, or lungless salamanders. It is one of two genera in the family to inhabit the Old World (the other being Karsenia), with the remaining 250 or so species being found in North, Central and South America.
Meet the Olm: Amazing Salamander Found in Caves | AMNH
Oct 28, 2015 · One great example is the European cave salamander known as the olm. These pinkish-white aquatic amphibians thrive in lightless, watery caves throughout eastern Europe. They eat, mate, and sleep underwater, breathing through external gills.
Cave Salamander - Virginia Herpetological Society
Interspecific Associations/Exclusions - Hutchison studied Cave Salamanders and long-tailed salamanders from four caves in Virginia. He found that the two species often shared the twilight zones of caves, with Cave Salamanders usually more abundant.
Cave Salamander | Mountain Lake Biological Station, U.Va.
Jul 26, 2010 · The Cave Salamander is a slender, delicate amphibian that makes its home in the “twilight zone” of sandstone and limestone caves or deep ravines. The twilight zone is the area in the cave mouth where there is some light, but not enough for plants to grow.
Cave Salamander (Eurycea lucifuga) - Indiana Herp Atlas
Cave Salamanders are most active in the twilight zones of caves and on the forest floor during mild weather and retreat farther underground during periods of extreme heat or cold. Adult Cave Salamanders feed upon a variety of terrestrial invertebrates, and larvae eat a …