#1975 · 🐸 amphibians

Long-tailed Salamander

Eurycea longicauda

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © bobbyfingers · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Kevin Metcalf · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jance S Carter · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Matt Muir · CC BY 4.0
6. © Todd Pierson · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © Nicholas Sly · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Chia⚡aka Cory Chiappone · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Corey Lange · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Corey Lange · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,412iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).