The sequoia slender salamander (''Batrachoseps kawia'') is a species of
salamander in the family
Plethodontidae.
It is
endemic to
California, in
Tulare County in the western United States.
Distribution
This salamander is endemic the
watershed
Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to:
Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
of the
Kaweah River at elevations from up to in the
Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...
.
The sequoia slender salamander's natural
habitat is in
riparian woodlands and
temperate coniferous forests in the western Sierra.
See also
*
Giant sequoia – ''Sequoiadendron giganteum''
References
External links
IUCN: all species searchpage
Batrachoseps
Salamander
Salamander
Fauna of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Amphibians described in 1998
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