Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander

The Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

status for the reticulated flatwoods salamander; retain threatened status for the frosted flatwoods salamander; and designate critical habitat for the frosted flatwoods salamander and the reticulated flatwoods salamander. More

The Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma bishopi) is a species of mole salamander that is native to a small portion of the southeastern coastal plain in the western panhandle of Florida and extreme southwestern Georgia. More

Endangered Status for Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander; Designation of Critical Habitat for Frosted Flatwoods Salamander and Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander = Summary: ↑ We, the U.S. More

Carolina for the frosted and reticulated flatwoods salamanders, which were formerly considered one species. In accordance with the split of the species, the agency today also recognized the reticulated flatwoods salamander as an endangered species and the frosted flatwoods salamander as a threatened species. More

The reticulated flatwoods salamander is endangered because of its small population sizes, loss of natural habitat to development and its limited ability to repopulate its historic habitat. Scientists say most of the salamander's populations in the U.S. More

The reticulated flatwoods salamander is on the endangered species list largely because its habitat has been destroyed by development. Before man encroached, the long-leaf pine-wiregrass areas where the salamander thrived benefitted from wildfires. More

designation, the reticulated flatwoods salamander's habitat was declared "critical."
 
"Approximately 4,453 acres across portions of the states of Florida and Georgia are designated as critical habitat for the reticulated salamander," a Fish and Wildlife Service news release said Tuesday. More

Northwest Florida's reticulated flatwoods salamander became an endangered species Tuesday. But where once local planners despaired that a proposed U.S. More

reticulated flatwoods salamander is listed as endangered); and (2) final critical habitat designations for each species. Previous Federal Actions The flatwoods salamander was listed as threatened on April 1, 1999 (64 FR 15691). More

reticulated flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma bishopi) in the Point Washington State Forest, Pine Log State Forest, and the Carter Tract in the Econfina Wildlife Management area. More

For the reticulated flatwoods salamander, a total of 2,881 acres of occupied habitat on military lands in Florida have been excluded from the designation because the military has Integrated Natural Resource Management Plans (INRMP), which contain specific measures to protect the salamander and its habitat. More