Endangered
Speleomantes strinatii
Speleomantes strinatii
Speleomantes strinatii is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
S. Strinatii have an oval-shaped head, a rounded snout, and a slight overbite that is more pronounced in males. The S. Strinatii also have highly variable coloration and patterns. S. Strinatii are commonly brown and black in color.
Male S. Strinatii average about 96 millimetres (3.8 in) in length, and can grow to up to 116 mm (4.6 in) long.
Range and habitat
S. Strinatii are found in the Southeast region of France as well as in Northwest Italy. This species ranges from Alpes de Haute Provence to Northwest Tuscany, through the Maritime Alps, Ligurian Alps, and Ligurian Apennines. S. Strinatii are commonly found at 0 to 2,290 metres (0 to 7,510 ft) above sea level.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
S. Strinatii appear to be opportunistic hunters with a wide range of invertebrate prey.
In crisis
S. Strinatii was most recently assessed for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2021. This list declared S. Strinatii an endangered species, because the population size was declining. Known threats to S. Strinatii include residential and commercial development, climate change and severe weather, biological resource use, and invasive species.
Climate change is likely to be a major threat to S. Strinatii due to the narrow climatic preferences of this species. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis are two similar single-celled fungal pathogens that have had detrimental effects on amphibian populations worldwide, among them S. Strinatii.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Speleomantes strinatii 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 Speleomantes strinatii, Wikidata item Q628954. 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.
