Endangered
Bigfoot splayfoot salamander
Chiropterotriton magnipes
Bigfoot splayfoot salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Chiropterotriton magnipes, recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Mexico and only known from north-eastern Queretaro, at elevations of 1,300–1,810 m (4,270–5,940 ft) asl. Its natural habitats are caves and crevices in pine–oak forest. It is threatened by habitat loss: removing the forest causes caves to dry up.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Salamanders hide under logs, in seeps, or in caves. They do not commute across a dry valley.
Eggs and damp skin make amphibians quick to vanish from a drained wetland or a forest stripped of litter.
In crisis
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Bigfoot splayfoot 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 Bigfoot splayfoot salamander, Wikidata item Q966064. 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.
