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Plateau tiger salamander

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Plateau tiger salamander
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Ambystomatidae
Genus: Ambystoma
Species:
A. velasci
Binomial name
Ambystoma velasci
(Dugès, 1888)
Synonyms

Ambystoma tigrinum velasci (Dugès, 1888)
Ambystoma lacustris Taylor & Smith, 1945

The plateau tiger salamander or Mexican tiger salamander (Ambystoma velasci) is a species of mole salamander in the family Ambystomatidae. It is typically considered endemic to Mexico,[2] although its range might extend to the United States.[1] Its natural habitat is grassland, including sparse forest and semiarid grassland. Breeding takes place in a range of aquatic habitats: deep volcanic lakes, shallow vernal pools, artificial cattle ponds, and intermittent, fish-free stream pools. It exhibits facultative paedomorphosis.[1]

An Axolotl that has gone through metamorphosis resembles an adult plateau tiger salamander, though the axolotl differs in its longer toes.[citation needed]

Ambystoma velasci is locally threatened by habitat loss due to urbanization, forest clearance, and water extraction, and also by pollution and the introduction of fish and frogs (Lithobates catesbeianus).[1] Out of Mammalian, Avian, and Herpetofauna species, Herpetofauna receive the least studies but in these studies are found to be the ones with the highest negative responses.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Ambystoma velasci". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T62130287A53974804. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T62130287A53974804.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ambystoma velasci (Dugès, 1888)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  3. ^ Chalfoun, A. D. (September 2021). "Responses of Vertebrate Wildlife to Oil and Natural Gas Development: Patterns and Frontiers". Current Landscape Ecology Reports. 6 (3): 71–84. doi:10.1007/s40823-021-00065-0. ISSN 2364-494X. S2CID 236560077.