Garden slender salamander
| Garden slender salamander | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Plethodontidae |
| Genus: | Batrachoseps |
| Species: | B. major
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| Binomial name | |
| Batrachoseps major Camp, 1915
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The garden slender salamander (Batrachoseps major) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is found in northern Baja California in Mexico and Southern California in the United States.[1]
Distribution
The garden slender salamander's natural habitats, in the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges, are chaparral and woodlands, temperate coniferous forests, arable land, rural gardens, and urban areas.
This salamander eats worms of many types and crawling arthropods of lesser size, such as pill bugs.
Conservation
The garden slender salamander is threatened by habitat loss, it is an IUCN Red List Least concern monitored species.[1]
One subspecies, the desert slender salamander[2] (B. m. aridus, sometimes Batrachoseps aridus), is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Gabriela Parra-Olea, David Wake, Geoffrey Hammerson, Ted Papenfuss (2008). "Batrachoseps major". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T59128A11887015. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T59128A11887015.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Crother, B. I. (ed.). 2008. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, p. 15. SSAR Herpetological Circular 37. PDF Archived 2012-01-13 at the Wayback Machine at SSAR .
- ^ USFWS. Batrachoseps major aridus Five-year Review. June 2009.
External links
- IUCN: all species searchpageError: "Q2707005" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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