Endangered
Monte Albo Cave Salamander
Speleomantes flavus
The Monte Albo cave salamander or Stefani's salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae, endemic to Sardinia.
Appearance
The preferred habitat often has a good covering of damp moss.
Range and habitat
The Monte Albo cave salamander or Stefani's salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae, endemic to Sardinia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rocky areas, caves, and subterranean habitats (other than caves) in the vicinity of streams. It reproduces through the direct development of a few terrestrial eggs It is threatened by habitat loss.
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.
Monte Albo Cave 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 Monte Albo Cave Salamander, Wikidata item Q1930708. 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.
