Critically Endangered
Kurdistan newt
Neurergus microspilotus
Kurdistan newt is a salamander in the family Salamandridae (order Caudata) — Neurergus microspilotus, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Neurergus derjugini, the Kurdistan newt, Kurdistan newt, Derjugin's (Kurdistan) mountain newt, or yellow-spotted mountain newt, is a salamander in the family Salamandridae.
Range and habitat
It is found in Kurdistan in western Iran and in northeastern Iraq.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Breeding takes place from April to June.
In crisis
It is threatened by droughts, water extraction, pollution, and collection for pet trade. It is known from a small number of populations, most of them very small.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Kurdistan newt is Critically 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 Kurdistan newt, Wikidata item Q3019851. 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.
