Endangered
Muralla Worm Salamander
Oedipina kasios
Muralla Worm Salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Oedipina kasios, recorded as Endangered and tied to Honduras.
The salamander
It was described by Mccranie, Vieites and David Burton Wake in 2008.
Salamanders are tailed amphibians. Many are lungless as adults and breathe through skin; others keep gills or use lungs.
Amphibians need damp skin or water at some point in the life cycle. Habitat loss and chytrid fungus sit behind many of the badges in this class.
Range and habitat
This species is endemic to Honduras. It is found: between 950 and 1750 m above sea level in La Muralla National Park in the department of Olancho. From 1920 m altitude in the Sierra de Agalta in the department of Olancho; in the Yoro Mountain National Park in the Department of Francisco Morazán.
GBIF currently lists 16 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
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.
Muralla Worm 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 Spanish Wikipedia article on Oedipina kasios, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q4671304 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
