Endangered
Iwami Salamander
Hynobius iwami
Iwami Salamander is a salamander in the family Hynobiidae (order Caudata) — Hynobius iwami, recorded as Endangered and tied to Japan.
The salamander
Salamanders are tailed amphibians. Many are lungless as adults and breathe through skin; others keep gills or use lungs.
Amphibians need damp skin or water at some point in the life cycle. Habitat loss and chytrid fungus sit behind many of the badges in this class.
Range and habitat
Iwami Salamander is recorded from Japan.
The type locality — the place tied to the name-bearing specimen — is Toda-chō, Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.
GBIF currently lists 23 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
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.
Iwami 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 Wikidata item Q108543104 and GBIF occurrence geography. No dedicated encyclopedia article was available at build time. Family and order context is original writing about the group — not a claim that a monograph exists for this name. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
