Lesser slender salamander

Lesser slender salamander
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Caudata
Family: Plethodontidae
Genus: Batrachoseps
Species: B. minor
Binomial name
Batrachoseps minor
Jockusch, Yanev & Wake, 2001

The lesser slender salamander (Batrachoseps minor) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family.

Distribution

The lesser slender salamander is endemic to California, in San Luis Obispo County in the western United States.[1]

This salamander's natural habitat is in the chaparral and woodlands and temperate coniferous forests in the southern end of the California Coast Ranges.

References

  1. . icun: B. minor . accessed 12.2.2010

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