Batrachoseps luciae Jockusch, Yanev, and Wake, 2001

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

Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) luciae Jockusch, Yanev, and Wake, 2001, Herpetol. Monogr., 15: 61. Holotype: MVZ 224757, by original designation. Type locality: "Don Dahvee Park, Monterey, Monterey Co., CA[lifornia].", USA.

English Names

Santa Lucia Mountains Slender Salamander (original publication; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 11; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 25; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 24).

Distribution

Broadly distributed in the northern Santa Lucia Mountains along the coast of Monterey Co., 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 pacificus prior to its description according to the original publication. In the Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) pacificus 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. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 258, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 582–583, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map)

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