The blunt-headed salamander is a mole salamander endemic to a small area of grassland and pine oak forest near Morelia in the Mexican state of Michoacan, at about 2,000 meters elevation. Adult females measure 42 to 93 millimeters and males 45 to 70 millimeters, with coloring from black to olive green above and grey below, sometimes marked with cream spots. Populations that remain neotenic keep their gills and fins and have unusually short, blunt heads with round eyes and short thick gills. It is critically endangered, threatened chiefly by habitat loss from agriculture, logging, and the destruction of the breeding ponds it depends on.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Scientific NameAmbystoma amblycephalum 2 Conservation Status Comparison
CITES Appendix Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Blunt-headed Salamander (Wikidata)
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Source Wikipedia: Blunt-headed salamander
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1. Wikipedia: Blunt-headed salamander
system (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly)
It has both neotenic and terrestrial populations.
Infobox: status
CR
- In Biome: Grassland, Wikipedia intro: "n Michoacán state in Southwestern Mexico. It inhabits a landscape consisting of a mosaic of natural grasslands and pine-oak forests at elevations of about 2,000..."
View the Source2. Blunt-headed Salamander (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q2513515 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): critically endangered.
- Child Taxon Of: Ambystoma, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon)
View the Source 3. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Amphibia
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 31Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 31
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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Ambystoma
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 1232Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 1232
"cites_listing":"II/NC","eu_listing":"B/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Animalia","phylum":"Chordata","class":"Amphibia","order":"Caudata","family":"Ambystomatidae"},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]
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