Endangered
Yenyuan stream salamander
Batrachuperus yenyuanensis
The Yenyuan stream salamander is a salamander in the family Hynobiidae endemic to Sichuan, China, where it occurs in Yanyuan, Xichang, Mianning, and Puxiong counties.
The salamander
Yenyuan stream salamander is a salamander in the family Hynobiidae (order Caudata) — Batrachuperus yenyuanensis.
Range and habitat
The Yenyuan stream salamander is a salamander in the family Hynobiidae endemic to Sichuan, China, where it occurs in Yanyuan, Xichang, Mianning, and Puxiong counties. Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, and freshwater marshes. It is a high-altitude salamander, typically inhabiting the waterways along the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau at altitudes 2440 to 4025 meters above sea level.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Adults eat a diet consisting mainly of insects and shrimp, and to a lesser degree, algae and seeds.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Yenyuan stream salamander is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Yenyuan stream salamander, Wikidata item Q2381592. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
