Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander

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

The Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps luciae) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family.

Distribution

It is endemic to California, in Monterey County in the western United States.[1]

This salamander is endemic to the Santa Lucia Range from the Monterey Peninsula south to near the Monterey-San Luis Obispo county line. Its natural habitats are riparian areas, montane chaparral and woodlands, and temperate coniferous forests.[1]

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