Eurycea Latitans

The Cascade Caverns Salamander or Cascade Caverns Neotenic Salamander (Eurycea latitans) is a species of aquatic salamander endemic to Cascade Caverns in Kendall County, Texas, USA. Like other species of cave salamander, they are almost entirely subterranean, living in spring waters deep in limestone rock strata, so gauging the exact extent of their geographic range or even their population numbers is virtually impossible. This also leads to reduced sampling for study, which has led to some uncertainty in the taxonomic classification, some sources considering all species of Texas cave salamanders to be subspecies of the Texas Salamander. Eurycea neotenes as well as the Texas Blind Salamander (Eurycea rathbuni) also live in caves and eat small bugs and other species of insects and spiders.