Dwarf salamander may refer to five species of
salamander
Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All t ...
in the genus ''
Eurycea'', all
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to the
United States
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and all of which were previously assigned to a single species (''Eurycea quadridigitata''):
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Chamberlain's dwarf salamander (''Eurycea chamberlaini''), found only in the Carolinas
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Hillis's dwarf salamander (''Eurycea hillisi''), found in interior regions of southern Alabama and Georgia, and the central Florida panhandle
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Western dwarf salamander (''Eurycea paludicola''), found from Mississippi west to eastern Texas
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Southeastern dwarf salamander (''Eurycea quadridigitata''), found from southern North Carolina south to Florida, west to Louisiana
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Bog dwarf salamander (''Eurycea sphagnicola''), found in southern Mississippi, Alabama, and the far western Florida panhandle
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