Peer Review Plan: Listing Salamanders as Injurious Due to Risk of Salamander Chytrid Fungus

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is evaluating the Order Caudata to determine which salamander species should be listed as injurious under the Lacey Act (18 USC 42, as amended) to prevent the risk of introduction into the United States of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), a fungus that causes fatal infections in European and native salamanders. The Service does not have the authority under the Lacey Act to list pathogens, but we can list the host species if the pathogen, such as this fungus, causes the host to be injurious.