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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Near Threatened |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
It inhabits lowland and montane tropical rainforests, cloud forests and mixed tropical forest. Individuals can be found at night on low vegetation near streams and also under leaf sheaths of banana plants. It appears to tolerate some habitat disturbance because it is found in gardens, cardamom plantations and shaded coffee plantations (C. Vásquez pers. comm. 2014; J. Ramos Galdámez and J.M. Solís pers. comm. March 2019). It breeds by direct development and is not dependent upon water.
Range:
This species ranges from the Atlantic slopes of Alta Verapaz to the Montañas del Mico, Guatemala. It has also been recorded from Río Catacamas in Olancho department, Honduras (L.D. Wilson and J.R. McCranie pers. obs.; Parra-Olea et al. 2004) and two localities in Santa Barbara department, Honduras (McCranie 2015, J.M. Solís and J. Ramos Galdámez pers. comm. March 2019). A subpopulation from Sierra de Santa Cruz, Guatemala previously considered B. mulleri has now been assigned to this species (S. Rovito pers. comm. Red List Assessment Workshop 2014). It might occur more widely on the northern face of the eastern Sierra de Las Minas in Guatemala (J. Campbell and M. Acevedo pers. comm. August 2019). It has been recorded from an elevational range of 100-1,200 m asl, its extent of occurrence (EOO) is 27,879 km2.
Conservation:
Conservation Actions In-Place
It has been recorded in Reserva Protector de Manantiales Cerro San Gil in Guatemala (C. Vásquez pers. comm. 2014). It is not known from any protected areas in Honduras (Honduras Red List Assessment Workshop March 2019).
Conservation Needed
Additional habitat protection would benefit those sites not covered by protected areas. Proactive, precautionary steps should be taken to detect the arrival of Bsal in Honduras and/or Guatemala and to establish a baseline by including the swabbing of salamanders encountered during routine amphibian monitoring activities (Honduras and Guatemala Red List Assessment Workshops 2019). In addition to regular monitoring, the general public can also support these efforts through reporting any dead salamanders to the iNaturalist global project: Saving Salamanders with Citizen Science (J. Kolby pers. comm. March 2019).
Research Needed
Research and monitoring are needed to better understand its distribution, population trends and current threats. In particular, survey data show that the species often occurs in altered habitats, but research is needed to determine the level of habitat degradation that it can withstand.
It has been recorded in Reserva Protector de Manantiales Cerro San Gil in Guatemala (C. Vásquez pers. comm. 2014). It is not known from any protected areas in Honduras (Honduras Red List Assessment Workshop March 2019).
Conservation Needed
Additional habitat protection would benefit those sites not covered by protected areas. Proactive, precautionary steps should be taken to detect the arrival of Bsal in Honduras and/or Guatemala and to establish a baseline by including the swabbing of salamanders encountered during routine amphibian monitoring activities (Honduras and Guatemala Red List Assessment Workshops 2019). In addition to regular monitoring, the general public can also support these efforts through reporting any dead salamanders to the iNaturalist global project: Saving Salamanders with Citizen Science (J. Kolby pers. comm. March 2019).
Research Needed
Research and monitoring are needed to better understand its distribution, population trends and current threats. In particular, survey data show that the species often occurs in altered habitats, but research is needed to determine the level of habitat degradation that it can withstand.