Olm

Scientific name: Proteus anguinus

Officially approvedEntity code: ENT-0474

Life cycle

The olm reaches sexual maturity at fourteen to fifteen years of age, and the average clutch is thirty-five eggs.

Evidence: SRC-DSC-AF2C07AD0BStatement code: CLM-ENT0474-DSC-05

Sources (1)

Sources

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1GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Proteus anguinus Laurenti, 1768SRC-DSC-0616B66F3B
2Proteus anguinus (olm), Animal Diversity WebSRC-DSC-AF2C07AD0B
3Toward the massive genome of Proteus anguinus, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2022 (PMID 34480358)SRC-DSC-022B097A50
4Living in darkness: Exploring adaptation of Proteus anguinus in 3 dimensions by X-ray imaging, GigaScience 2022 (PMID 35380661)SRC-DSC-DDFDE32BE7
5Cultivable Skin Mycobiota of Healthy and Diseased Blind Cave Salamander (Proteus anguinus), Frontiers in Microbiology 2022 (PMID 35910647)SRC-DSC-7B6765410F

Approved version OWNER-REVIEW-20261108T073910851 · last approved 8 November 2026