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Distinguished Author

José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage
  (1823-1907).

A Portuguese zoologist and politician. He was the curator of Zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Lisbon. His work at the Museum consisted in acquiring, describing and coordinating collections, many of which arrived from the Portuguese colonies in Africa, such as Angola, Mozambique, etc. He published more than 200 taxonomic papers on mammals, birds, and fishes. In the 1880s he became the Minister of the Navy and later the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Portugal. The zoology collection at the Lisbon Museum is called the Bocage Museum in his honor. He was responsible for identifying many new species, which he named according to the naturalist who found them.

Species of the month

Long-toed salamander

Ambystoma macrodactylum

Ambystoma macrodactylum Baird, S.F. 1850

Some facts about this mole salamander in the family Ambystomatidae:

Length: Typically 4.1–8.9 cm (1.6–3.5 in) when mature

Range: The distribution of the long-toed salamander is primarily in the Pacific Northwest, Western North America, with an altitudinal range of up to 2,800 m (9,200 ft).

Type locality: "Astoria, [Clatsop County,] Oregon", USA.

Habitat: The Long-toed salamander lives in a variety of habitats, including temperate rainforests, coniferous forests, montane riparian zones, sagebrush plains, red fir forests, semiarid sagebrush, cheatgrass plains, and alpine meadows along the rocky shores of mountain lakes. It lives in slow-moving streams, ponds, and lakes during its aquatic breeding phase. The long-toed salamander hibernates during the cold winter months, surviving on energy reserves stored in the skin and tail.

First described: By the American naturalist and museum curator Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1850.

Conservation status: Not threatened.

While the long-toed salamander is classified as Least Concern (LC) by the IUCN, many forms of land development negatively affect the salamander's habitat and have put new perspectives and priorities into its conservation biology. Conservation priorities focus at the population level of diversity, which is declining at rates ten times that of species extinction. Population level diversity is what provides ecosystem services, such as the keystone role that salamanders play in the soil ecosystems, including the nutrient cycling that supports wetland and forested ecosystems.

The subspecies Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum Russell & Anderson, 1956 (Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander) is of particular concern and it was afforded protections in 1967 under the US Endangered Species Act. This subspecies lives in a narrow range of habitat in Santa Cruz County and Monterey County, California. Prior to receiving protections, some few remaining populations were threatened by development. The subspecies is ecologically unique, having unique and irregular skin patterns on its back, a unique moisture tolerance, and it is also an endemic that is geographically isolated from the rest of the species range. Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum is considered Critically Imperiled (T1) by the NatureServe conservation status system.

See also: Species of previous months.

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