olm

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olm (OHLM) - n., a cave-dwelling salamander with external gills (Proteus anguinus) of the coastal karst region of Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia.


Blind, permanently aquatic, and neotenous, but nonetheless a salamander. Name is from German, from Old High German, from who knows where as its not one of the local-language names.

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