Cave Salamander
This species is without a definite broad dorsal band. The back and sides of head, trunk, and tail with many small, irregular or rounded, separate black spots, rarely a dorsolateral linear series. The venter is light yellow and it has a length up to 161 mm. The young are paler and yellowish with the hatchlings sparsely pigmented and only 10 mm long. They have a prehensile tail.
Cave Salamanders (Eurycea lucifuga) range from the southern half of Indiana and extreme southwestern Ohio in the North, to the northern third of Alabama plus extreme northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Georgia in the South. They extend from northern Virginia in the East, to northeastern Oklahoma and extreme southeastern Kansas in the West. However, they are not always uniformly distributed within this range, due to their general (but not absolute) reliance on limestone caves and springs.
Breeding migrations of the type typical of pond-breeding frogs and salamanders are unknown. Neither are such migrations suspected, given the life history of cave salamanders. However, that is not to say that such seasonal movements as occur (see "Seasonal Migrations" below) may not also be related to reproduction.
