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<p> <em>Chioglossa lusitanica</em> Bocage, 1864</p>

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  • Golden-striped salamander

  • Chioglossa lusitanica Bocage, 1864

  • Salamandridae

  • The gold-striped salamander is an amphibian with a slender body, small head, prominent eyes and short slender limbs. It exhibits a black colouration on the dorsal surface, with two gold or orange longitudinal stripes that join at the tail, while its belly is dark grey with white dots. It can measure up to 15 cm long.

  • Peneda-Gerês National Park

    Alvão Nature Park

    Serra da Estrela Nature Park

    Serra do Açor Protected Landscape

  • Norte

    Centro

  • Vulnerable

  • Iberian Peninsula

  • The gold-striped salamander exists in habitats with high relative moisture and mild temperature, in the shores of mountain rivers, with clean and well oxygenated water, with riparian vegetation and near deciduous woods, marshes and other biotopes. 

  • Spring and Autumn

  • During its adult stage the gold-striped salamander feeds on insects, spiders and small molluscs and on its larval stage it feeds on aquatic insects, molluscs and crustaceans.

  • The Portuguese population of this species is estimated to be more than 10 thousand individuals.