RED-CHEEKED SALAMANDER

CLASSIFICATION

• Domain Eukarya
• Kingdom Animalia
• Class Amphibia
• Order Caudata
• Family Plethodontidae

CLASSIFICATION

• Genus Plethodon
• Species jordani

BIOME, ECOSYSTEM,AND HABITAT

• Red cheeked salamander's live in the temperate forest biome
• It lives in marshland forest areas

NUMBER LEFT AND LOCATIONS

• Occurring only in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in the eastern
• United States it is found from Mount Sterling to the mountains north
• of Bryson City
• There are about 5,000 left in the US but the number is slowly decreasing
• due to acid rain in the water near were it lives.

ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC FACTORS THAT ARE HARMING IT

• snakes blue jays American robins American crows raccoons striped skunks Virginia opossums
• Acid rain and human touches like chopping down forests

AGENCIES THAT ARE HELPING THE RED CHEEKED SALAMANDER

• The smokey mountain national park is trying to help it out by watching them very closely
• IUCN red list is helping the salamander by bringing it public attention

ACTIONS BY HUMANS THAT ARE HURTING THE SPECIES

• Clear cutting
• Acid rain caused by human actions

What affect would it have on the environment if it went extinct
The caterpillar and the grasshopper populations will increase and the blue jay species will decrease and with that the snakes population will decrease

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