Endangered
Pseudoeurycea lynchi
Pseudoeurycea lynchi
Pseudoeurycea lynchi is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Adult males measure 41–48 mm (1.6–1.9 in) and females 41–54 mm (1.6–2.1 in) in snout–vent length (SVL). The ground color is black, and there are usually many black spots and short streaks. The tail is usually paler than the body and ends with a bright yellow to reddish orange tip.
The tail is relatively stout, tapering rather abruptly toward the tip, and is about the same length as the SVL (range 86–115 %).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the central Sierra Madre Oriental in Veracruz and Puebla states, Mexico.
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
Despite being adaptable to some habitat degradation, extensive forest loss caused by agriculture, logging, and mining is threatening this species. The populations appear to be on decline.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Pseudoeurycea lynchi 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 Pseudoeurycea lynchi, Wikidata item Q2212208. 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.
