Eurycea longicauda

Long-tailed salamander
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Caudata
Family: Plethodontidae
Genus: Eurycea
Species: E. longicauda
Binomial name
Eurycea longicauda
(Green, 1818)
Synonyms

Salamandra longicauda Green, 1818

Eurycea longicauda — known as the long-tailed salamander[1] or longtail salamander[2] — 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. Body color varies from yellow to orange-red to red with random black spots.[2]

Subspecies

The dark-sided subspecies from Ozark County, Missouri

There are two subspecies:[3]

References

  1. Crother; et al. (2008). "Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, With Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, Sixth Ed". Herpetological Circular #37.
  2. 1 2 Conant, R.; Collins, J.T. (1998). A field guide to reptiles & amphibians: eastern and central North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-90452-8.
  3. Petranka, J.W. (1998). Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Institution Press.

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