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Previously considered to be a subspecies of the tiger salamander (A. tigrinum), the California tiger salamander was recently designated a separate species again. [4] The California tiger salamander distinct population segment (DPS) in Sonoma County and the Santa Barbara County DPS are listed as federally endangered, while the Central California ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ensatina eschscholtzii has been described as a ring species in the mountains surrounding the Californian Central Valley. [2] The complex population forms a horseshoe shape around the mountains, and although interbreeding can happen between each of the 19 populations around said horseshoe, the Ensatina eschscholtzii subspecies on the western end of the horseshoe cannot interbreed with the ...
The forests of Northern California are home to many animals, for instance the American black bear.There are between 25,000 and 35,000 black bears in the state. [6]The forests in northern parts of California have an abundant fauna, which includes for instance the black-tailed deer, black bear, gray fox, North American cougar, bobcat, and Roosevelt elk.
L.G. Talent and C.L. Talent A Population of the Endangered Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander (Ambystoma macrocactylum croceum) Monterey County, California, California Department of Fish and Game. 66: 184–186. 1980. R.C. Stebbins, A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin. 1985.
The genus Dicamptodon was formerly thought to contain two species, Cope's giant salamander (D. copei) on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, and the Pacific giant salamander (D. ensatus) which consisted of three geographic populations, an Idaho isolate, a group in northern California, and a group in Oregon and Washington. [9]