Critically Endangered
Pygmy Splayfoot Salamander
Chiropterotriton lavae
Pygmy Splayfoot Salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Chiropterotriton lavae, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The salamander
Pygmy Splayfoot Salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Chiropterotriton lavae.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the central-western Veracruz state, Mexico. Its natural habitats are pine-oak and cloud forests at about 1,200 m (3,900 ft) altitude. It is threatened by severe habitat loss caused by logging and mining.
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.
Pygmy Splayfoot Salamander 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 Pygmy Splayfoot Salamander, Wikidata item Q2212091. 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.
