Critically Endangered
Bolitoglossa cataguana
Bolitoglossa cataguana
Bolitoglossa cataguana is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The type series consists of the holotype, that is an adult female measuring 45 mm (1.8 in) in snout–vent length, three sub-adult and adult females between 35 and 50 mm (1.4 and 2.0 in), a sub-adult male measuring 40 mm (1.6 in), and two juveniles.
The tail, measuring 32 mm (1.3 in) in the holotype, is constricted basally and appears "swollen" after the constriction.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Honduras and known from near Cataguana in the Marale municipality, Francisco Morazán Department.
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
Individuals were found active in vegetation up to 3 metres above the ground or resting during the daytime under a log. Its small range, rarity, and the threat posed by habitat loss caused by agricultural expansion, among them marijuana plantations, warrant its listing as "critically endangered".
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Bolitoglossa cataguana is Critically 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 Bolitoglossa cataguana, Wikidata item Q2909389. 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.
