Found a slender, either a Gabilian or a California Slender, under an old log near the Science Hill parking lot. It was the first time my friend Maritza had ever seen one.
I have a redwood tree in my backyard so there are a lot of salamanders and little creatures that live there. This salamander moved very fast and I think it was scared.
The California slender salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus) is a lungless salamander that is found primarily in coastal mountain areas of Northern California, United States as well as in a limited part of the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, California, in patches of the northern Central Valley of California, and in extreme southwestern Oregon. What makes this amphibian notable is that this species resides primarily in a limited range within California as one of a handful quasi-endemic...
