List of Cave Salamanders
- The following species have commonly been termed “the cave salamander” without any additional modifier or adjective:
- The olm (Proteus anguinus), or proteus, a unique blind salamander endemic to caves of southeastern Europe
- The spotted-tail cave salamander (Eurycea lucifuga), a lungless salamander endemic to caves of the eastern United States
- Eurycea (of North America) and Speleomantes (of Italy and France) are two genera of lungless salamanders with so many individual species termed “cave salamanders” that the entire group is sometimes so designated
- Individual species of “cave salamander”, generally with an additional modifier or adjective in their name, include the following:
- Eurycea rathbuni, the Texas cave salamander, or Texas blind salamander
- Eurycea tridentifera, the Honey Creek Cave Blind Salamander, or Comal Blind Salamander
- Eurycea spelaea, the Ozark Blind Cave Salamander, or Grotto Salamander
- Speleomantes ambrosii, Ambrosi's Cave Salamander, or French Cave Salamander, or Spezia Cave Salamander
- Speleomantes imperialis, Imperial Cave Salamander, or Scented Cave Salamander
- Speleomantes supramontis, the Supramonte Cave Salamander
- Speleomantes italicus, the Italian cave salamander
- Speleomantes flavus, the Monte Albo Cave Salamander, or Stefani's Salamander
- Speleomantes strinatii, Strinati's cave salamander
- Speleomantes sarrabusensis, Sarrabus' cave salamander
- Gyrinophilus palleucus, the Tennessee Cave Salamander
- G. p. necturoides, the Big Mouth Cave salamander
- Gyrinophilus gulolineatus, the Berry cave salamander
- Atylodes genei, the brown cave salamander, or Gene's cave salamander, Sardinian cave salamander, or simply Sardinian salamander
- Chiropterotriton mosaueri, Cave Splayfoot Salamander
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