Critically Endangered
Terrestrial Splayfoot Salamander
Chiropterotriton terrestris
Terrestrial Splayfoot Salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Chiropterotriton terrestris, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Mexico.
The salamander
Terrestrial Splayfoot Salamander is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae (order Caudata) — Chiropterotriton terrestris.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Sierra Madre Oriental of eastern Hidalgo state, Mexico. Its natural habitats are humid pine–oak and cloud forests. It is threatened by habitat loss due to deforestation and the potential spread of amphibian pathogens due to the illegal pet trade.
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.
Terrestrial 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 Terrestrial Splayfoot Salamander, Wikidata item Q2211862. 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.
