Southern Grotto Salamander vs. Cave Salamander
Both live in the same Arkansas Ozark caves (a Cave Salamander record within 10 km of nearly every Southern Grotto record): Cave Salamanders on the walls and ledges near the entrance, grotto salamanders farther in and in the cave streams. A: Tiny eyes under lids that are partly or fully grown shut in the Southern Grotto Salamander; big, bulging, dark eyes in the Cave Salamander. B: Pale pinkish-white, no pattern in the Southern Grotto Salamander; bright orange to red with scattered round black spots in the Cave Salamander. The gilled larvae of the two are hard to tell apart in a cave stream; a grotto larva grows into a pale, blind adult. The Cave Salamander also has a longer tail that it uses to grip.
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