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noun - European aquatic salamander with permanent external gills that lives in caves
OLM - The olm or proteus (Proteus anguinus) is an aquatic salamander in the family Proteidae, the only exclusively cave-dwelling chordate species found in ...
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Salamander |
European salamander (or actress Celeste, to a Cockney) |
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Apr 3 2017 Canadiana |
May 23 2016 Canadiana |
Feb 23 2015 Canadiana |
Sep 8 2014 Canadiana |
Aug 23 2010 Canadiana |
Apr 20 2009 Canadiana |
Jan 7 2007 L.A. Times Magazine |
Oct 2 2006 Canadiana |
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a cave-dwelling amphibian, Proteus anguinus of the genus Proteus, having external gills it is found along the coast from northeastern Italy to Montenegro |
European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills |
A pale-skinned blind salamander with external gills which lives in limestone caves in south-eastern Europe. |
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The olm or proteus (Proteus anguinus) is an aquatic salamander in the family Proteidae, the only exclusively cave-dwelling chordate species found in Europe. In contrast to most amphibians, it is entirely aquatic; it eats, sleeps, and breeds underwater. Living in caves found in the Dinaric Alps, it is endemic to the waters that flow underground through the extensive limestone bedrock of the karst of Central and Southeastern Europe, specifically southern Slovenia, the basin of the Soa River (Italian: Isonzo) near Trieste, Italy, southwestern Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Introduced populations are found near Vicenza, Italy, and Kranj, Slovenia.It is also called the "human fish" by locals because of its fleshy skin color (translated literally from Slovene: loveka ribica, Macedonian: , Montenegrin: /ovjeja ribica, Serbian: /oveja ribica, Bosnian: ovjeja ribica/ and Croatian: ovjeja ribica), as well as "cave salamander" or "white salamander". In Slovenia, it is also known by the |