Endangered
Santa Barbara moss salamander
Nototriton limnospectator
Santa Barbara moss salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Nototriton limnospectator, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
It is also called the Santa Barbara moss salamander.
Range and habitat
The natural N. Limnospectator usually lives in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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
N. Limnospectator is threatened by habitat loss.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Santa Barbara moss 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 Santa Barbara moss salamander — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2213132. 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.
