Montseny Brook Newt

Montseny Brook Newt :: Calotriton arnoldiBad at Goodbyes :: Episode 091On today’s show we learn about the Montseny Brook Newt, a critically endangered amphibian native to the cold-water streams of the Montseny mountain massif in Catalonia in north-eastern Spain. Its scientific name is Calotriton arnoldi and it was first described in 2008.For more information about Montseny Brook Newt conservation, please see the Barcelona Zoo at https://zoobarcelona.cat/.(00:05) Intro(02:05) Species Information(28:09) Citations(30:01) Music(38:13) PledgeResearch for today’s show was compiled from:Amat, F., Oromí, N., Sanuy, D., & Carranza, S. (2015). Sexual dimorphism and age structure of the Montseny newt (Calotriton arnoldi). Amphibia-Reptilia, 36(3), 245-252. – https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-00003000AmphibiaWeb. 2026. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. – https://amphibiaweb.org/species/6666Zoo de Barcelona. (n.d.). Conservation of the Montseny brook newt. – https://zoobarcelona.cat/en/conservation-of-the-montseny-brook-newtChester Zoo. (2026, July 21). Highly endangered newts hatched at Chester Zoo have been released at a secret site in Catalonia. – https://www.chesterzoo.org/news/highly-endangered-newts-hatched-at-chester-zoo-have-been-released-at-a-secret-site-in-cataloniaContreras, J., Gomà, J., Velalcázar, D., & Montori, A. (2024). Thermal Tolerance and Preferred Temperature in the Critical Endangered Montseny Brook Newt (Calotriton arnoldi). Animals, 14(13), 1963. – https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14131963García-Salmerón, A., Muñoz-Muñoz, F., Soler-Membrives, A., & Valbuena-Ureña, E. (2025). Head form variation in mountain newts of the genus Calotriton (Amphibia, Salamandridae) in a phylogeographic context. Zoologica Scripta, 54(4), 473–486. – https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12720Guinart, D., Solórzano, S., Amat, F., Grau, J., Fernández-Guiberteau, D., & Montori, A. (2022). Habitat Management of the Endemic and Critical Endangered Montseny Brook Newt (Calotriton arnoldi). Land, 11(3), 449. – https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030449iNaturalist – near Montseny, SpainIUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2022. Calotriton arnoldi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T136131A89696462. – https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T136131A89696462.enLedesma, J. L. J., Montori, A., Altava-Ortiz, V., Barrera-Escoda, A., Cunillera, J., & Àvila, A. (2019). Future hydrological constraints of the Montseny brook newt (Calotriton arnoldi) under changing climate and vegetation cover. Ecology and Evolution, 9(17), 9736–9747. – https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5506Talavera, A., Palmada-Flores, M., Burriel-Carranza, B., Valbuena-Ureña, E., Mochales-Riaño, G., Adams, D. C., Tejero-Cicuéndez, H., Soler-Membrives, A., Amat, F., Guinart, D., Carbonell, F., Obon, E., Marquès-Bonet, T., & Carranza, S. (2024). Genomic insights into the Montseny brook newt (Calotriton arnoldi), a Critically Endangered glacial relict. iScience, 27(1), Article 108665. – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108665Talavera A, Valbuena-Ureña E, Burriel-Carranza B, Mochales-Riaño G, Adams DC, Amat F, Carbonell