cave salamander

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cave salamander (plural cave salamanders)

  1. Any of several species of salamander that inhabit caves, chiefly of the family Plethodontidae, but also including the olm, Proteus anguinus, often showing adaptations to living in such a lightless environment.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 127:
      Europe's cave salamanders, scientists agree, must havve come form North America. But when, and by which route?

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