Sentences with phrase «diverse salamander population»

Herpetologists quickly began pressing United States agencies and officials (Dot Earth, Op - Ed article) to clamp down on the global exotic pet trade to cut the chances of the disease reaching the United States — which has the most diverse salamander population in the world.

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And although American salamanders, the most diverse population in the world, have been faring well in comparison, scientists are now bracing for an extraordinary threat: an Asian chytrid fungus called Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, or Bsal.