Endangered
Kori salamander
Hynobius yangi
Kori salamander, the Kori salamander, is a salamander endemic to southeastern South Korea.
Appearance
Kori salamander males measure 42–63 mm (1.7–2.5 in) (n=18 individuals) and females 57–61 mm (2.2–2.4 in) in snout–vent length (n=3). Tail length is about 70–90% of snout–vent length. Dorsum is olive without dark speckles, or in some individuals, dark brownish dotted very finely with yellow speckles.
Clutch size in one female was 86 eggs of about 2.8 mm (0.11 in) in diameter.
Range and habitat
Kori salamander, the Kori salamander, is a salamander endemic to southeastern South Korea.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
It is a lentic-breeding species similar to the Korean salamander (H. Leechi) but is distinguished by factors among them tail shape and dorsal coloration.
In crisis
IUCN has assessed Kori salamander as "Endangered" because of its small distribution area and continuing habitat loss.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Kori 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 Kori salamander, Wikidata item Q374392. 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.
