Relictual slender salamander
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B. relictus
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Batrachoseps relictus Brame & Murray, 1968
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The relictual slender salamander (Batrachoseps relictus) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to California, found only a small area in Kern County, California.[1]
Distribution
This salamander's range is on Breckenridge Mountain located on the western slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada, east of the lower Kern River canyon in Kern County.[1] Much of what was formerly known as the relictual slender salamander has now gone over to the Greenhorn Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps altasierrae), the Fairview slender salamander (Batrachoseps bramei) and the Kern Plateau slender salamander (Batrachoseps robustus).
Presently relictual slender salamanders exist at only two sites on Breckenridge Mountain separated by a mere three miles. This locale is south and west of the range of the Kern Canyon slender salamander (Batrachoseps simatus). The species formerly existed to the west in the lower Kern River Canyon (the location of the type locality), but these populations have all gone extinct for unknown reasons. Further down the Kern River Canyon, the Gregarious slender salamander (Batrachoseps gregarius) occurs.
The relictual slender salamander's natural habitats are freshwater springs and riparian areas, interior chaparral and woodlands, and temperate coniferous forests.
References
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- Jockusch, E. L., I. Martínez-Solano, R. W. Hansen and D. B. Wake. 2012. Molecular and morphological diversification of slender salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps) in the southern Sierra Nevada with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 3190:1-30.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Geoffrey Hammerson (2004). Batrachoseps relictus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.
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- IUCN Red List data deficient species
- Batrachoseps
- Endemic fauna of California
- Amphibians of the United States
- Fauna of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- Fauna of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of Kern County, California
- Natural history of Tulare County, California
- Data deficient species
- Extant Miocene first appearances
- Lungless salamander stubs