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These neotenous characteristics may serve as "social releasers" that trigger our caretaker impulses, according to Archer.

From The Verge • Nov. 8, 2015

Rather, the perennibranchs are distinguished mainly by their neotenous features, and their development is likely to show simplifications which are not necessarily primitive.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)

Among neotenous or perennibranchiate urodeles there is no separate operculum or opercularis.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)