Endangered
Salado Springs Salamander
Eurycea chisholmensis
Salado Springs Salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Eurycea chisholmensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to United States.
The salamander
Salado Springs Salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Eurycea chisholmensis.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the vicinity of Salado, Texas. Its natural habitat is freshwater springs. It has been found only from a few springs that feed Salado Creek in Bell County, Texas.
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
In 2014, it was listed under the Endangered Species Act with Threatened status. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Salado Springs 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 Salado Springs Salamander, Wikidata item Q1594601. 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.
