Long-tailed salamander | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Caudata |
Family: | Plethodontidae |
Genus: | Eurycea |
Species: | E. longicauda |
Binomial name | |
Eurycea longicauda (Green, 1818) |
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Synonyms | |
Salamandra longicauda Green, 1818 |
Salamandra longicauda Green, 1818
Eurycea longicauda — known as the long-tailed salamander or longtail salamander — 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.
There are two subspecies: