Misplaced Pages

Pseudoeurycea goebeli

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Goebel's false brook salamander) Species of amphibian

Pseudoeurycea goebeli
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Plethodontidae
Genus: Pseudoeurycea
Species: P. goebeli
Binomial name
Pseudoeurycea goebeli
(Schmidt, 1936)

Pseudoeurycea goebeli is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. These salamanders live at an elevation of 2400–2900 meters in the cloud forest. Researchers have found that their mating and spermiogenesis do not depend on temporal changes like other salamanders in that area. Another unique fact about these specific salamanders is that even though they have mating opportunities throughout the year and they are active all year, they are seasonal egg-layers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Pseudoeurycea goebeli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T59381A53982437. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T59381A53982437.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.

2. Mathew Smita, Oommen V. Oommen, M. George Jancy, M.A. Akbarsha, Stages in spermatogenesis of two species of caecilians, Ichthyophis tricolor and Uraeotyphlus cf. narayani (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): Light and electron microscopic study, Journal of Morphology, 10.1002/jmor.10231, 261, 1, (92–104), (2004).

Taxon identifiers
Pseudoeurycea goebeli
Oedipus goebeli


Stub icon

This lungless salamander article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: