Endangered
Pleurodeles poireti
Pleurodeles poireti
Pleurodeles poireti is a salamander in the family Salamandridae (order Caudata), recorded as Endangered and tied to Algeria.
The salamander
Pleurodeles poireti is a salamander in the family Salamandridae (order Caudata).
Range and habitat
It is found only in the Edough Massif, in the north east of Algeria, it is one of only four species of salamanders in Africa. The natural habitats are of these newts are rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, cisterns and ponds.
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.
Pleurodeles poireti 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 Pleurodeles poireti, Wikidata item Q3010407. 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.
