Nototriton richardi

Nototriton richardi commonly known as Richard's salamander is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the Cordillera Central,Costa Rica.

Nototriton richardi
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Plethodontidae
Genus:	Nototriton
Species:	N. richardi
Binomial name
Nototriton richardi (Taylor, 1949)
Synonyms[1]
Parvimolge richardi Taylor, 1949[2] Chiropterotriton richardi Wake and Lynch, 1976 Nototriton richardi Wake and Elias, 1983 Nototriton (Nototriton) richardi Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012

Its natural habitat is tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Citations

1. Frost 2017.
2. Taylor 1949, pp. 284–285.

Sources

• Bolaños, F., Wake, D & Savage, J. 2004. Nototriton richardi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
• Frost, Darrel (2017). "Nototriton richardi (Taylor, 1949)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved August 8, 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Taylor, Edward H. (1949). "New salamanders from Costa Rica". The University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 33 (6): 279–288.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading

• Wake, David B.; Elias, Paul (1983). "New genera and new species of Central American salamanders, with a review of the tropical genera (Amphibia, Caudata, Plethodontidae)" (PDF). Contributions in Science. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 345: 1–19.