Texas Blind Salamander

Eurycea rathbuni

The Texas Blind Salamander is one of the most striking cave animals in the world — a pale, eyeless, gill-bearing salamander found only in the Edwards Aquifer caves beneath San Marcos, Texas. Federally endangered.

Habitat

Underground streams and caves in the Edwards Aquifer of central Texas

Diet

Aquatic invertebrates in cave pools

How common

Rare

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