Three-toed Amphiuma
Amphiuma tridactylum
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- A. tridactylum – Locale Unknown – Photo courtesy USGS
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- Map by Steve Bledsoe, SWCHR
DISTRIBUTION: In our region, Amphiuma tridactylum occurs in eastern Texas.
LEGAL STATUS: No Listings
MEANING OF SCIENTIFIC NAME: Amphiuma tridactylum (Cuvier, 1827)
Genus: Amphiuma, Greek – amphi = on both sides + pneuma = breathe — poss. misassumption that it breathed both air and water
Species: tridactylum, Greek – tri = three + daktylos = finger or digit — ref. to the # of digits on both sets of limbs
Ref. Ellen Beltz 2006
Ref. E. Jaeger 1962