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Texas Blind Salamander

Eurycea rathbuni

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Description:

The Texas Blind Salamander is an extremely rare cave-dwelling amphibian native to San Marcos, Texas. Because this Salamander is adapted for living in water underground, it has no eyes and little skin pigment. It is a predator and hunts its prey by sensing water pressure waves created by animals in the still underground waters where it lives.

Habitat:

The Texas Blind Salamander is native to San Marcos and lives in underwater caves of Edwards Aquifer.

Notes:

Photo taken by Sam Massey

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Texas Blind Salamander (Eurycea rathbuni)

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PublishedSeptember 23, 2014

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