Critically Endangered
Bolitoglossa leandrae
Bolitoglossa leandrae
Bolitoglossa leandrae is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
It is relatively small and exhibits sexually dimorphic color patterns, with males being a darker shade of brown than females and featuring yellow dorsal stripes.
Range and habitat
The species is native to the rainforests of Venezuela and Colombia.
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
Bolitoglossa leandrae was assessed as critically endangered by the IUCN in 2020, with the Colombian population believed to be possibly extinct. It is threatened by chytridiomycosis and agriculture related deforestation.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Bolitoglossa leandrae 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 leandrae, Wikidata item Q11752808. 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.
