The Gabilan Mountains slender salamander (''Batrachoseps gavilanensis'') is a species of
salamander in the family
Plethodontidae. It is
endemic to
California in the United States, where it is distributed along the
Central Coast region from
Santa Cruz to northern
Kern County.
[NatureServe. 2015]
''Batrachoseps gavilanensis''.
NatureServe Explorer. Version 7.1. Accessed 19 June 2016.
This salamander lives in redwood and evergreen forests,
chaparral
Chaparral ( ) is a shrubland plant community and geographical feature found primarily in the U.S. state of California, in southern Oregon, and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean c ...
, and
California oak woodland habitat.
It burrows in soil and forest litter.
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This species is up to 16.5 centimeters long, including its long tail. It is gray with brown and black washes, white speckling along the sides, and usually a brownish dorsal stripe bordered with black dots.][Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander (''Batrachoseps gavilanensis'').]
CaliforniaHerps.
This species and several other native California salamanders were described as new species in 2001 when the '' Batrachoseps pacificus'' species complex was split according to the results of a phylogenetic analysis.[Jockusch, E. L., Yanev, K. P., & Wake, D. B. (2001)]
Molecular phylogenetic analysis of slender salamanders, genus ''Batrachoseps'' (Amphibia: Plethodontidae), from central coastal California with descriptions of four new species.
''Herpetological Monographs'', 54-99.
References
Slender salamanders
Salamander
Salamander
Fauna of the California chaparral and woodlands
Gabilan Range
Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Natural history of San Benito County, California
Amphibians described in 2001
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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