Amphiuma means

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AMPHIBIA	CAUDATA	AMPHIUMIDAE

Scientific Name:

Amphiuma means

Species Authority:

Garden, 1821

Common Name/s:

English

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Two-toed Amphiuma

Synonym/s:

Axolotus lacertinus (Jarocki, 1822)

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	Geoffrey Hammerson
Reviewer/s:	Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species can be found in the Coastal Plain of southeastern North America from southeastern Virginia to Florida and eastern Louisiana.
Countries:	Native: United States
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Population [top]

Population:	Total adult population size is unknown but surely exceeds 10,000 and might exceed 100,000.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	This species can be found in swamps, bayous, margins of muddy sloughs, cypress heads, drainage ditches, sluggish streams, wet meadows, muddy lakes; soft substrate for burrowing or thick aquatic vegetation important for shelter. Often uses crayfish burrows. It may leave water, especially on rainy nights; sometimes found under objects at water's edge. Eggs are laid under objects in damp place near water's edge or possibly in shallow water, or underground.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Habitat and Ecology:

This species can be found in swamps, bayous, margins of muddy sloughs, cypress heads, drainage ditches, sluggish streams, wet meadows, muddy lakes; soft substrate for burrowing or thick aquatic vegetation important for shelter. Often uses crayfish burrows. It may leave water, especially on rainy nights; sometimes found under objects at water's edge. Eggs are laid under objects in damp place near water's edge or possibly in shallow water, or underground.

Systems:

Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Widespread loss of wetlands undoubtedly has eliminated many local populations, but the species remains common in many other areas (Petranka 1998).

Major Threat(s):

Widespread loss of wetlands undoubtedly has eliminated many local populations, but the species remains common in many other areas (Petranka 1998).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Protection of coastal plain wetlands is the major conservation need.

Conservation Actions:

Protection of coastal plain wetlands is the major conservation need.

Citation:	Geoffrey Hammerson 2004. Amphiuma means. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 May 2013.
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