Endangered
Yellow-peppered Salamander
Ambystoma flavipiperatum
Yellow-peppered Salamander is a salamander in the family Ambystomatidae (order Caudata) — Ambystoma flavipiperatum, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The yellow-peppered salamander also known as the salamandra de Champala and the yellow-headed salamander, is a mole salamander native to areas at an elevation of 4900 ft around Santa Cruz, Rancho Malveste and Tapalpa in Jalisco, Mexico. It is a large yellow salamander with large dark spots running down its dorsal surface – thus the "yellow-peppered" designation. Larvae have the same coloration as adults, and can be quite large before undergoing metamorphosis.
Range and habitat
Neoteny may occur in some individuals, but neotenic populations are not known.
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.
Yellow-peppered 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 Yellow-peppered Salamander, Wikidata item Q2512486. 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.
