Southern Grotto Salamander vs. Oklahoma Salamander

Oklahoma Salamanders live in springs and spring runs of the north-west Arkansas Ozarks where Southern Grotto records also fall (within 10 km of 32 of 52). A: Tiny eyes under lids that are partly or fully grown shut in the Southern Grotto Salamander; large, bulging, working eyes with a gold iris in the Oklahoma Salamander. B: Pale pinkish-white, almost no pattern in the Southern Grotto Salamander; yellow-brown to orange-brown, flecked dark and pale, with darker sides in the Oklahoma Salamander. Many Oklahoma Salamanders keep their gills and stay in the stream gravel, finely speckled grey or brown with normal dark eyes; grotto larvae live mostly in cave streams.

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