Jollyville Plateau salamander

The salamander

Jollyville Plateau salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Eurycea tonkawae.

Range and habitat

Jollyville Plateau salamander occur in a clumped-like distribution, only being found in the Jollyville Plateau and Brushy Creek areas in Texas counties. It is endemic to Travis and Williamson counties, Texas, United States. Jollyville Plateau salamander is the sister taxon to E. Naufragia and E. Chisholmensis, two other endemic perrenibranchiate central Texas salamanders.

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

Jollyville Plateau salamander is threatened by habitat loss and habitat degradation due to rapid urban growth. In August, 2013, this species was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.

Jollyville Plateau 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 Jollyville Plateau salamander, Wikidata item Q2275262. 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.