Critically Endangered
Dendrotriton rabbi
Dendrotriton rabbi
Dendrotriton rabbi is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Males grow to at least 36.7 mm (1.44 in) and females to 37.5 mm (1.48 in) in snout–vent length. The body is dark brown dorsally and has obscure orange flecks and lighter pigmentation mid-dorsally. Some individuals have light mid-dorsal stripe, paravertebral stripes, or distinct reticulate blotching. The venter is light gray and is diffusely peppered with small melanophores.
Individuals larger than about 25 mm (0.98 in) SVL are mature.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Guatemala and is known from the Montañas de Cuilco, near the Mexican border, and from the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. Its range might extend into Mexico.
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
The species is threatened by habitat loss caused by forest clearance, typically for wood extraction and expanding small-holder farming.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Dendrotriton rabbi 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 Dendrotriton rabbi, Wikidata item Q1936188. 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.
