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Hotel Zaracay salamander

species of amphibian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ2210580 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hotel Zaracay salamander (Bolitoglossa chica) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.

It is endemic to Ecuador.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hotel Zaracay salamander” as species of amphibian. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hotel, Zaracay and salamander can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of amphibian. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2210580. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hotel Zaracay salamander” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.