Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides
Subspecies of amphibian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides, the Big Mouth Cave salamander, a lungless salamander, is a subspecies of the Tennessee cave salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus). The Big Mouth Cave salamander lives in Big Mouth Cave and other caves in the Elk River drainage basin in Grundy County and Coffee County, Tennessee. The salamander was first described by Lazell and Brandon in 1962.[2]
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Big Mouth Cave salamander | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Urodela |
Family: | Plethodontidae |
Genus: | Gyrinophilus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | G. p. necturoides |
Trinomial name | |
Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides Lazell and Brandon, 1962 |
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