The Tennessee Cave Salamander, Gyrinophilus palleucus, is known from subterranean waterways along the southern Cumberland Plateau of south-central Tennessee, in the Nashville Basin south-east of Nashville, Tennessee, in north-western Alabama, and in north-western Georgia, USA. Dam construction, mining, agricultural and industrial contaminants entering groundwater, and deforestation creating siltation of its subterranean waterways are all believed to have contributed to general population declines. The species is listed by the IUCN as "vulnerable." These images were taken in Tennessee in 2012.