Alvarado's Salamander
Bolitoglossa alvaradoiSummary 1
Alvarado's Salamander (Bolitoglossa alvaradoi) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to Costa Rica. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Habitat and ecology 2
Habitat and Ecology
It lives in lowland moist and wet forests and premontane rainforest, and does not occur in degraded habitats. It is nocturnal and arboreal, living especially in bromeliads, and being found on leaves of trees at night. It is usually reported in the axils of palm trees that are being harvested for 'heart of palm' (Federico Bolaos pers. comm. 2007). Breeding takes place by direct development, and the species is not dependent on water.
Systems
- Terrestrial
Distribution and habitat 3
Bolitoglossa alvaradoi is a rarely seen arboreal nocturnal salamander presumed to live in forest canopies where it makes use of bromeliad microhabitats (Wake 1987) . Alvarado's salamander is found only in several fragmented populations on the Atlantic slopes of Costa Rica in moist or wet lowland forests and premontane rainforests, at elevation ranges from 700 to 1,150 m (2300 to 3750 ft).(Savage 2002; Leenders 2001)
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- Adapted by Jonathan (JC) Carpenter from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolitoglossa_alvaradoi
- (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34336466
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