Critically Endangered
Oedipina tomasi
Oedipina tomasi
Oedipina tomasi is a small, lungless salamander in the family Plethodontidae.
Appearance
Oedipina tomasi have dark black bodies with small, pale flecks along their backs, and have a snout to vent length of 57.5 millimeters.
Range and habitat
No country pin is stored for Oedipina tomasi on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.
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
This critically endangered amphibian has only ever been observed in the Cusuco National Park in Honduras. Loss of genetic diversity due to low population size and deforestation pose the largest threats to this species.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Oedipina tomasi 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 Oedipina tomasi, Wikidata item Q3349442. 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.
