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Austin Blind Salamander Description
- Aquatic its entire life
- Needs flowing water with a fairly consistent temperature of 70ºF
- Thought to spend all or most of its life in the aquifer
- Occasionally individuals observed at the surface; may have been washed through the spring outlets
- Eggs have been observed in captivity, but not in the wild
- ½” to over 3” long
- Translucent surface with three pairs of red external gills
- Pearly-white to lavender colored
- Square-shaped snout
- Eye-spots, but no image-forming eyes
- Eats aquatic macro invertebrates and may eat juvenile salamanders or salamander eggs
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