Amphibia · Urodela
Axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum
Obligate paedomorphic salamander that retains its aquatic larval form throughout its entire adult life without undergoing metamorphosis.
- Realm
- Freshwater
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 224 licence-filtered records across 10 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (13)
- Algunas especies de anfibios y reptiles contenidos en el Proyecto de Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-059-ECOL-2000 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Anfibiofauna endémica frente al cambio climático: análisis de sensibilidad e incertidumbre (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Computarización de las colecciones de vertebrados terrestres de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, IPN Fase 4 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Digitalización y Sistematización de las Colecciones Biológicas Nacionales del Instituto de Biología, UNAM (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Formación de una base de datos y elaboración de un atlas de la herpetofauna de México (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- LACM Vertebrates (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Royal Ontario Museum Herpetology (ROMH) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)