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The California slender salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus) is a lungless salamander [2] that is found primarily in coastal mountain areas of Northern California, United States as well as in a limited part of the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, California, in patches of the northern Central Valley of California, and in extreme southwestern Oregon.
Speckled black salamander Aneides iecanus: Shasta black salamander Aneides klamathensis: Klamath black salamander Aneides lugubris: Arboreal salamander Aneides niger: Santa Cruz black salamander Aneides vagrans: Wandering salamander Batrachoseps altasierrae: Greenhorn Mountains slender salamander Batrachoseps attenuatus: California slender ...
The California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense) is a vulnerable amphibian native to California. It is a mole salamander . Previously considered to be a subspecies of the tiger salamander ( A. tigrinum) , the California tiger salamander was recently designated a separate species again. [ 4 ]
Due to the extremely dry summer climate in coastal California and neighboring northwest Baja California, B. major (along with almost every other coastal California salamander) is only active above ground in the wetter winter months, typically from as early as October to as late as June. These salamanders are active near the surface when soil ...
California Pacific slender salamander: Batrachoseps pacificus (Cope, 1865) Channel Islands of California King's River slender salamander: Batrachoseps regius: Jockusch, Wake & Yanev, 1998: Fresno County, California Relictual slender salamander: Batrachoseps relictus: Brame & Murray, 1968: Kern County, California. Kern Plateau slender salamander ...
The California giant salamander is endemic to Northern California and lives up to 6,500 feet (2,000 m) primarily in damp, coastal forests including coast Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii) and California coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in both montane and valley-foothill riparian habitats. They tend to be common where they ...
Climbing salamanders is the common name for plethodontid (lungless) salamanders of the genus Aneides. [1] It contains 10 species native to North America , distributed between the Pacific Coast (7 species), Sacramento Mountains (1 species), and Appalachian Mountains (2 species).
The Santa Cruz long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum) is an endangered subspecies of the long-toed salamander, which is found only close to a few isolated ponds in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties in California. It has a black body, broken yellow or orange irregular striping along its spine, and a tail fin well evolved for swimming.