genus Amphiuma

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genus Amphiuma - congo snakes

amphibian genus - any genus of amphibians

Amphiumidae, family Amphiumidae - congo snakes

amphiuma, blind eel, congo eel, congo snake - aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet; of still muddy waters in the southern United States

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Genetic variation in the aquatic salamander genus Amphiuma. Am.

Feeding times of Amphiuma tridactylum at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee

Fossil History of Amphiuma -- Although the fossil record of the paedomorphic salamander genus Amphiuma is limited, it dates back to the late Paleocene (8), approximately 54 Ma B.P.

Amphiuma (Caudata: Amphiumidae) from the Pleistocene Clark Quarry local fauna of coastal Georgia

No specimen of the genus Amphiuma has been recorded in Indiana since 1880, although habitat potentially suitable to species of this genus is present along riparian corridors in southern sections of the state.