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The lungless salamanders, in addition to having no lungs, have long slender snake-shaped bodies with very small limbs that appear almost vestigial in several species. [1] Their main diet consists of small insects, such as springtails, small bark beetles, crickets, young snails, mites, and spiders.
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.
Gregarious slender salamander Batrachoseps incognitus: San Simeon slender salamander Batrachoseps kawia: Sequoia slender salamander Batrachoseps luciae: Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander Batrachoseps major: Garden slender salamander Batrachoseps minor: Lesser slender salamander Batrachoseps nigriventris: Black-bellied slender salamander
One subspecies, the desert slender salamander [4] (B. m. aridus, sometimes Batrachoseps aridus), is a federally listed endangered species of the United States. [7] It is possibly extinct, with no individuals being found since 1996. However, a thorough search has not been conducted in several decades, and it is possible that salamanders remain ...
The Cope's giant salamander (Dicamptodon copei) is a species of salamander in the family Dicamptodontidae. [4] It reaches between 12.4–19.1 cm (4 + 7 ⁄ 8 – 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). The salamander resembles Pacific giant salamander larvae, but it never transforms to a terrestrial stage. It is smaller overall with a narrower head and shorter limbs.
The San Gabriel slender salamander (Batrachoseps gabrieli) is a species of salamander. It has a worm-like body, a large head and large limbs, and an elongate cylindrical tail of less than 1.5 times its body length. An adult salamander is between 3 and 5 cm long.
The gregarious slender salamander (Batrachoseps gregarius) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. [2] Its natural habitats are California interior chaparral and woodlands and temperate grasslands in the lower foothills of the western Sierra Nevada and the eastern Central Valley in California , United States.
The Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps luciae) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to California in the United States, where it is known only from Monterey County. [1] This salamander is distributed in the Santa Lucia Range in California's Central Coast region.