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Cope's climbing salamander

species of amphibian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ2210567 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cope's climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa morio) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.

It is endemic to Guatemala.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

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“Cope's climbing salamander” enters the record as species of amphibian. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cope's, climbing and salamander can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cope's, climbing and salamander.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2210567. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cope's climbing 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.