Endangered
Oedipina taylori
Oedipina taylori
Oedipina taylori is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
This specimen—the holotype—is an adult male that measured 55 mm (2.2 in) in snout–vent length (SVL). The coloration is gun-metal blue.
Description Oedipina taylori was described by Laurence Cooper Stuart in 1952 based on a single specimen.
Range and habitat
It is found on the Pacific versant in south-eastern Guatemala, to central to north-eastern El Salvador and adjacent southern Honduras.
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
Honduran populations might represent another species.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Oedipina taylori 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 Oedipina taylori, Wikidata item Q2212158. 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.
