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Hemidactylium scutatum (Four-toed Salamander)

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Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The four-toed salamander (Hemidactylium scutatum) is a lungless salamander native to eastern North America. It is a species of the monotypic genus Hemidactylium. (In Francophone Canada, it is called the salamandre à quatre orteils.)
View Wikipedia Record: Hemidactylium scutatum

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
43
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
57
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 83.73
EDGE Score: 4.44
View EDGE Record: Hemidactylium scutatum

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  4.724 inches (12 cm)
Litter Size [2]  30
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  9 years
Female Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months

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Parasitized by 
Gorgoderina bilobata[3]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0