steel gray / food / limestone cave systems / few cave systems / /
NaturalFeature
Cumberland Plateau / Appalachians / Tennessee River / Blue Ridge Mountains / Black Mountain / Cumberland Mountain / Unaka Mountain Range / Carolina mountain / Allegheny mountain / Blue Ridge Mountain / /
Organization
state legislature / U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service / US Federal Reserve / Center for North American Herpetology / Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency / Tennessee legislature / /
Person
Robert Wayne Van Devender / Stephen G. Tilley Red Salamander Pseudotriton / MORGAN PUTNAM DEKALB / Stephen G. Tilley / Brad Glorioso Cumberland Plateau Salamander / Brad Glorioso Eastern Newt Notophthalmus / MO HENRY WEAKLEY HA OBION / FRANKLIN MARION Y LE MCNAIRY / CARROLL DICKSON SCOTT SO / Suzanne Collins / Robert Wayne Van Devender Wehrle / Brad Glorioso / WAYNE GILES LINCOLN N SO / Bob English / FAYETTE S GRUNDY CARTER / MAURY LEWIS / Berry Cave / John Copeland Mole Salamander Ambystoma / CARTER I O IC SEVIER LOUDON / Brad Glorioso Salamanders / Lisa Powers / ES TR FE / JAC MOORE GIBSON / MARION Y LE MCNAIRY UN / Froghaven Farm / CLAY MACON SUMNER / LINCOLN N SO HN / JEFFERSON KNOX ROANE / Brad Glorioso Tennessee / Brian Miller / MONROE MCMINN FRANKLIN MARION / Patricia Miller / / /
Position
broad head / MP / large flattened head / flattened head / small head / /
ProvinceOrState
Kentucky / Virginia / Alabama / Polk / Tennessee / Cumberland Plateau Physiographic Province / Mississippi / North Carolina / Georgia / /
Region
southern Appalachians / central Tennessee / eastern Tennessee / northeastern Tennessee / East Tennessee / western Tennessee / West Tennessee / /
Salamanders of Tennessee In 1995, in recognition of Tennessee’s unique natural heritage, the state legislature designated the Tennessee cave salamander as our official State Amphibian. You may be wondering, “What are