Eurycea longicauda

Common names: long-tailed salamander,^[1] longtail salamander^[2]

Eurycea longicauda is a species of lungless salamander native to the Appalachian Region of the eastern United States. This 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 E. longicauda group is divided into two subspecies:^[3]

• E. longicauda longicauda (long-tailed salamander)
• E. longicauda melanopleura (dark-sided salamander)

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. ^ ^{a b} Conant, R.; Collins, J.T. (1998). A field guide to reptiles & amphibians: eastern and central North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0395904528. 
3. ^ Petranka, J.W. (1998). Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Institute Press. 

• Ireland, P.H. 1974. Reproduction and larval development of the dark-sided salamander Eurycea longicauda melanopleura (Green). Herpetologica 30:338-343.

External links

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• http://www.dlia.org/atbi/species/Animalia/Chordata/Amphibia/Urodela/Plethodontidae/Eurycea_longicauda.shtml
• http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/59268/0/full