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Old World Blind Cave Salamander

Proteus Laurenti 1768

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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auditory system

Ladich and Popper 2004
otoliths
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q591800

Definition: Inner-ear structure in vertebrates which detects acceleration and may detect acoustic signals

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Christensen et al, 2015
extratympanic
URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/extratympanic

Definition: conduction of sound to the inner ear of a vertebrate by a pathway other than the tympanic membrane and the ossicles of the middle ear

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Christensen et al, 2015
lungs
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7886

Definition: essential respiration organs in many air-breathing animals

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cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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geographic distribution

Mozambique Species List
Mozambique
URI: https://www.geonames.org/1036973

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hearing range

Christensen et al, 2015

300 Hz

(max)
Christensen et al, 2015

80 Hz

(min)
Christensen et al, 2015

30 Hz

(min)
Christensen et al, 2015

500 Hz

(max)

hearing threshold

Christensen et al, 2015

80 dB

locomotion

Ashley Ross 1994
quadrupedal movement
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21907045

Definition: terrestrial locomotion in animals using four limbs

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(adult)

mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
apatite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52254

Definition: A phosphate mineral with the general formula Ca5(PO4)3X where X = OH, F or Cl

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number of public records in bold

Barcode of Life Data Systems

3

number of records in iNat

iNaturalist data coverage

141

reproduction

Fairbairn 2013
sexual reproduction
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953

Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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sexual system

Fairbairn 2013
dioecious
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681

Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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type specimen repository

GBIF national node type records Germany
Bayerische Staatssammlung fuer Palaeontologie und Geologie
URI: http://grbio.org/cool/r9n2-w98n

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GBIF nat'l node type records Netherlands

Naturalis
GBIF national node type records UK

NHMUK