Description: Long-tailed salamanders are often yellow, but can range in color to red, orange and brown and have irregular dots and dashes along their bodies and tails. They have large eyes, slender bodies and stout limbs. They range in length from 4 to 8 inches long, with 60 percent of that length being their tails.

Habitat: Eurycea longicauda inhabit streamsides, spring runs, ponds, cave mouths, and abandoned mines. With wet weather, they may venture into wooded terrestrial habitats. They hide in rock crevices or under rocks, logs, etc. Eggs are laid in underground crevices associated with aquatic environments, but in caves they may also be attached to objects in or above water.

Range: This species can be found in the United States of America from southern New York to Missouri, south to Arkansas, Tennessee, extreme northeastern Mississippi, northern Alabama, extreme northwestern Georgia, western North Carolina and northwestern Virginia.

Found in these States: AL | DE | GA | IN | KY | MD | MS | NC | NJ | NY | OH | PA | TN | VA | WV

Diet: long-tailed salamanders eat a variety of invertebrates.

Reproduction: Eurycea longicauda reproduces in November to February. The eggs measure 0.28 inches in diameter. The larvae hatch in January–March at about 0.39 inches snout–vent length (SVL). They metamorphose seven months later at 0.91 to 1.10 inches SVL. Males become sexually mature between 1.2 to 1.7 inches SVL and females 1.3 to 1.7 inches SVL.

Status: Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution and presumed large population.

Subsperies: Two, both are found in the United States:
   Eastern Long-tailed Salamander - (Eurycea longicauda longicauda)
   Midland Long-tailed Salamander - (Eurycea longicauda pernix)

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