A small salamander known from mountains in Honduras. Its recorded range covers a limited part of that mountainous landscape.
It has a broad snout and short, slender limbs. Brown bodies with fine white flecks were recorded in adult males.
Nototriton lignicola is a small salamander that uses sheltered spaces in moist mountain forest. A young individual has been found inside fractured rock beside a stream, adding a rocky refuge to the rotten logs occupied by adults.
On 10 June 2006, researchers found a juvenile inside fractured rock beside Quebrada Cataguana, at 1,820 metres in Honduras’s Montaña de Yoro National Park. On 14 March 2007, two adults were found inside rotten logs farther upslope on Cerro El Filón, at 2,020 metres.
These localities lie approximately 45 kilometres west of the previously known locality in La Muralla. A river valley at 500–600 metres separates the mountain areas. The records revealed another occurrence of this small animal in geographically separated moist mountain forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The 2011 authors reported logging and agricultural expansion reaching high elevations in Montaña de Yoro. Despite efforts by park management and community leaders in Marale, clearing had passed the 1,800-metre lower boundary of the park’s core zone in many places. They also noted the opportunity to investigate substantial remaining montane forest. Revisiting historical localities to examine the salamander and forest condition could help guide conservation.