Endangered
Riama balneator
Riama balneator
Riama balneator is a lizard or snake in the family Gymnophthalmidae, recorded as Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
The lizard or snake
This named form is a lizard or snake. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
Housing This species is endemic to the Tungurahua province in Ecuador. It is found on the Tungurahua volcano. It lives in tropical rainforest.
GBIF currently lists 9 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.
In crisis
Riama balneator 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 Riama balneator — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q5251064 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.
