Eurycea robusta

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Blanco Blind Salamander
Conservation status
Data deficient
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Caudata
Family: Plethodontidae
Genus: Eurycea
Species: E. robusta
Binomial name
Eurycea robusta
Longley, 1978
Synonyms

Typhlomolge robusta
Longley, 1978

The Blanco Blind Salamander (Eurycea robusta) is a species of aquatic, lungless salamander native to the United States. It is endemic to a small region of the Blanco River near San Marcos in Hays County, Texas. There is some doubt as to its taxonomic classification, and some sources suggest that it may actually be one of the other species of Eurycea endemic to Texas, but its habitat, deep in limestone karst, makes collecting specimens for research particularly problematic.

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