In search of critically endangered species: the current situation of two tiny salamander species in the Neotropical mountains of Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Worldwide, one in every three species of amphibian is endangered, 39 species have gone extinct in the last 500 years and another 130 species are suspected to have gone extinct in recent decades. Of the amphibians, salamanders have the highest portion of their species in one of the risk categories, even higher than the frogs. To date there have been few studies that have used recent field data to examine the status of populations of endangered salamanders. In this study we evaluate the current situation of two tiny salamanders, Parvimolge townsendi and Thorius pennatulus, both of which are distributed at intermediate elevations in the mountains of the northern Neotropics and are considered to be critically endangered; the first has been proposed as possibly extinct. By carrying out exhausti

SUBMITTER: Sandoval-Comte A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3317776 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature