Endangered
Tiannan crocodile newt
Tylototriton yangi
Tiannan crocodile newt is a salamander in the family Salamandridae endemic to southern Yunnan, China.
The salamander
Salamanders are tailed amphibians. Many are lungless as adults and breathe through skin; others keep gills or use lungs.
Amphibians need damp skin or water at some point in the life cycle. Habitat loss and chytrid fungus sit behind many of the badges in this class.
Range and habitat
Tiannan crocodile newt is a salamander in the family Salamandridae endemic to southern Yunnan, China. It is found throughout Honghe and Wenshan Prefectures.
GBIF currently lists 46 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.
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
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.
Tiannan crocodile newt 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 Tiannan crocodile newt — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3546054 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.
