Pacaya mushroomtongue salamander

The salamander

The holotype male measures 77.9 mm in total length among them 45.3 mm for standard length and 32.6 mm for the tail and the 23 specimens observed during the original description measure on average 65.42 mm among them 26.91 mm for the tail.

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

Pacaya mushroomtongue salamander is recorded from Guatemala.

GBIF currently lists 42 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.

Pacaya mushroomtongue 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 Pacaya mushroomtongue salamander — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2909412 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.