Endangered
Mountain stream salamander
Ambystoma altamirani
Mountain stream salamander is a salamander in the family Ambystomatidae (order Caudata) — Ambystoma altamirani, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Its tail is slender, with a low fin along the top and an even smaller fin on the bottom of the tail. The dorsal surface and the sides are a purplish-black color, while the belly is a purplish-lavender. The edges of the lips, tips of the digits, and the fin on the bottom of the tail are a cream color.
The mountain stream salamander grows to be about 115 mm long.
Range and habitat
The mountain stream salamander lives to the west and south of the Valley of Mexico. It lives in an altitude range of 2,700 to 3,200 m above sea level. This species lives and breeds in small streams that flow through high-elevation pine or pine–oak woodland forests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The adults will come back to the stream to breed and lay eggs.
In crisis
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Mountain stream 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 Mountain stream salamander, Wikidata item Q2512350. 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.
