Giant Palm Salamander

Bolitoglossa dofleini

Bolitoglossa dofleini is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is found in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, plantations, and heavily degraded former forest. An example ecoregion of occurrence is the Belizean pine forests. The species is threatened by habitat loss.
Giant Palm Salamander (Bolitoglossa dofleini) The giant flat feet show that despite its large size, this is still one of the arboreal Bolitoglossa salamanders that are so diverse in Central America. Bolitoglossa dofleini,Doflein's salamander,Geotagged,Guatemala,Spring

Naming

Giant Palm Salamander or Doflein's Salamander

References:

Some text fragments are auto parsed from Wikipedia.

Status: Near threatened
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC
Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAmphibia
OrderCaudata
FamilyPlethodontidae
GenusBolitoglossa
SpeciesB. dofleini
Photographed in
Guatemala