Gold-striped salamander

Gold-striped salamander
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Salamandridae
Subfamily: Salamandrinae
Genus: Chioglossa
Bocage, 1864
Species:
C. lusitanica
Binomial name
Chioglossa lusitanica
Bocage, 1864
Range map[2]

The gold-striped salamander or golden-striped salamander[3] (Chioglossa lusitanica) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae. It is the only species of the genus Chioglossa. It is found in the north-west of Iberia (in Portugal and Spain) at an altitude of up to 1,300 m. It is threatened by habitat loss.

  1. ^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Chioglossa lusitanica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T4657A89698017. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  2. ^ Jan Willem Arntzen, Jaime Bosch, Mathieu Denoël, Miguel Tejedo, Paul Edgar, Miguel Lizana, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Alfredo Salvador, Mario García-París, Ernesto Recuero Gil, Paulo Sá-Sousa, Rafael Marquez 2008. Chioglossa lusitanica. 2010.1 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 16 May 2010.
  3. ^ "Gold-striped salamander - Chioglossa lusitanica Bocage, 1864". European Environment Agency. Retrieved 17 January 2021.