Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Caudata > Plethodontidae > Speleomantes > Speleomantes ambrosii

Speleomantes ambrosii (Ambrosi's Cave Salamander)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ambrosi's cave salamander, the French cave salamander, or the Spezia cave salamander (Speleomantes ambrosii) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. Endemic to southeastern France and northwestern Italy, its natural habitats are temperate forests, rocky areas, caves, and subterranean habitats (other than caves). It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Speleomantes ambrosii

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Speleomantes ambrosii

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  4.921 inches (12.5 cm)
Litter Size [1]  10
Litters / Year [1]  1
Adult Weight [1]  2.26 grams
Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Female Maturity [1]  4 years
Male Maturity [1]  4 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Appenine deciduous montane forests Italy Palearctic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests Italy, France Palearctic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Alpi Apuane Regional Nature Park 50998 Italy  
Praterie primarie e secondarie delle Apuane 42799 Italy  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No

Range Map

External References

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.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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