Batrachoseps diabolicus Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Batrachoseps > Species: Batrachoseps diabolicus

Batrachoseps (Batrachoceps) diabolicus Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 472: 7. Holotype: MVZ 95446, by original designation. Type locality: "Hell Hollow, at the junction with the Merced River at Lake McClure on California Highway 49, Mariposa County, California", USA.

English Names

Hell Hollow Slender Salamander (original publication; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 19; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 194; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 15; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 11; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 24).

Distribution

Merced River drainage north to the American River at elevations below 300 m along the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - California

Endemic: United States of America, United States of America - California

Comment

Confused with Batrachoseps relictus prior to description. In the Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) relictus group of Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 472: 1–17, and Jockusch and Wake, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 363. See detailed account by Hansen and Wake, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 671–672. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 194, and Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 257, provided brief accounts, figures, and maps. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 578–579, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map)

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