Zarciadero web-footed salamander

Appearance

The type series consists of two adult females measuring 51 and 55 mm (2.0 and 2.2 in) in snout–vent length (SVL) and 92 and 104 mm (3.6 and 4.1 in) in total length. The snout is truncate in dorsal aspect and rounded in profile. The upper parts are grayish brown or brownish olive with small, inconspicuous, irregularly shaped buff-yellow spots.

A subadult female measured 34 mm (1.3 in) SVL.

Range and habitat

It is endemic to Honduras and is known from the summit of Cerro El Zarciadero (its type locality) and the southwestern side of the nearby Cerro Azul Meámbar National Park, in the northern Comayagua Department.

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

Habitat loss may further threaten this population by leading to drying of the environment. Also use of the pesticides in the surrounding area is a potential threat.

Salamanders disappear when seeps are capped, caves are disturbed, or a pathogen moves through a mountain range.

Zarciadero web-footed 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 Zarciadero web-footed salamander, Wikidata item Q2211312. 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.