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SUBMITTER: Hopkins WA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3935429 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ZooKeys 20140207 378
The hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) is among the most intriguing and imperiled amphibians in North America. Since the 1970s and 80s, western populations of the Ozark and eastern subspecies in Missouri have declined by nearly 80%. As a result of population declines, the Ozark hellbender was recently federally protected as an endangered species, and the eastern subspecies was granted protection under CITES. Although habitat degradation is probably the biggest threat to hellbender populat ...[more]