Sentence:  Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake's neotenic <WSD>salamanders</WSD> and chironomids, or midge flies. [...] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.