Endangered
Camp Sasardi Salamander
Bolitoglossa cuna
Camp Sasardi Salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Bolitoglossa cuna, recorded as Endangered and tied to Middle America.
Appearance
A medium-sized species for its genus, female Camp Sasardi Salamander reach a snout–vent length of 46.6–55.7 mm (1.8–2.2 in). The back is light golden-tan while the underside is lighter in color. It is a medium-sized species for its genus, with females reaching a snout–vent length of 46.6–55.7 mm (1.8–2.2 in).
Range and habitat
Camp Sasardi Salamander is endemic to Panama. It inhabits the moist lowland tropical rainforests of eastern Guna Yala province. It is found at elevations of 10–718 m (33–2,356 ft).
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
It is classified as being endangered by the IUCN due its limited range and ongoing habitat degradation. Camp Sasardi Salamander is classified as being endangered by the IUCN due its limited range and ongoing habitat degradation. The species' range is threatened by logging and development.
Salamander chytrid fungus, a pathogen that has devastated European salamander populations post its 2010 introduction to that continent, has not yet spread to the Americas, but still presents a future threat to the species if it ever spreads to Panama.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Camp Sasardi 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 Camp Sasardi Salamander, Wikidata item Q2211697. 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.
