Endangered
Oaxacan Climbing Salamander
Bolitoglossa macrinii
Oaxacan Climbing Salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Bolitoglossa macrinii, recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
The natural Oaxacan Climbing Salamander usually lives in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, but it has also been found in plantations. It is most often found at elevations of 550–1,860 m (1,800–6,100 ft), and occasionally up to 2,500 m (8,200 ft) elevation. Its extent of occurrence (EOO) is 4,756 km2 (1,836 mi2), its area of occupancy (AOO) is 4,345 km2 (1,678 mi2).
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
Oaxacan Climbing Salamander is threatened by habitat loss.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Oaxacan Climbing 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 Oaxacan Climbing Salamander, Wikidata item Q2211187. 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.
