Italian cave salamander [SEP] IUCN conservation status
Nature has assessed the Italian cave salamander as being "near threatened". This is on the basis that, although it is common over much of its range, its total extent of occurrence is less than and suitable habitat may be declining locally.
Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides
Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides, the Big Mouth Cave salamander, a lungless salamander, is a subspecies of the Tennessee cave salamander ("Gyrinophilus palleucus"). The Big Mouth Cave salamander lives in Big Mouth Cave and other caves in the Elk River drainage basin in Grundy County and Coffee County, Tennessee. The salamander was first described by Lazell and Brandon in 1962.
Conservation status.
While the TNC rates the Big Mouth Cave salamander as "critically imperiled", IUCN claims it is only "vulnerable