California Salamanders
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Clouded Salamander
The clouded salamander (Aneides ferreus) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is temperate forests and it is probable that many nest in trees. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Black Salamander
The Black Salamander or speckled black salamander (Aneides flavipunctatus) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Arboreal Salamander
The arboreal salamander, Aneides lugubris, is a species of climbing salamander. It is native to California and Baja California, where it is primarily associated with oak and sycamore woodlands, and thick chaparral.
Wandering Salamander
The wandering salamander (Aneides vagrans) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is found in Canada and the United States. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
California Slender Salamander
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 ...more ↓
Inyo Mountains Salamander
The Inyo Mountains salamander (Batrachoseps campi) is an endangered species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family that is endemic to California in the western United States.
Hell Hollow Slender Salamander
The Hell Hollow slender salamander (Batrachoseps diabolicus) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to California, in Merced County in the western United States....
San Gabriel Mountains Slender Salamander
The San Gabriel slender salamander (Batrachoseps gabrieli) is a species of salamander. It has a worm-like body, a large head and large limbs, and an elongate cylindrical tail of less than 1.5 times its body length. An adult salamander is between 3 and 5 cm long. It has a black dorsum with white, coppery, and orange blotches, and an immaculate black venter. It may have red spots ...more ↓
Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander
The Gabilan Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps gavilanensis) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to California, in Monterey and San Benito, and San Luis Obispo Counties in the western United States.
Gregarious Slender Salamander
The gregarious slender salamander (Batrachoseps gregarius) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family, endemic to California, in Tulare County in the western United States.
San Simeon Slender Salamander
The San Simeon slender salamander (Batrachoseps incognitus) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family.
Sequoia Slender Salamander
The sequoia slender salamander (Batrachoseps kawia) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to California, in Tulare County in the western United States.
Santa Lucia Mountains Slender Salamander
The Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps luciae) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family.
Garden Slender Salamander
The garden slender salamander (Batrachoseps major) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is found in northern Baja California in Mexico and Southern California in the United States.
Lesser Slender Salamander
The lesser slender salamander (Batrachoseps minor) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family.
Black-bellied Slender Salamander
The black-bellied slender salamander, Batrachoseps nigriventris, is a small species of salamander that is endemic to California.
Channel Islands Slender Salamander
The Channel Islands slender salamander (Batrachoseps pacificus) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to California in the United States.
Kings River Slender Salamander
The Kings River slender salamander, Batrachoseps regius, is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to California, in Fresno County in the western United States....
Relictual Slender Salamander
The relictual slender salamander (Batrachoseps relictus) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to California, found only a small area in Kern County, California.
Kern Plateau Slender Salamander
The Kern Plateau salamander, Batrachoseps robustus, is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family, endemic to California, in Tulare and Inyo, and Kern Counties in the western United States....
Kern Canyon Slender Salamander
The Kern Canyon slender salamander (Batrachoseps simatus) is a plethodontid salamander .
Tehachapi Slender Salamander
The Tehachapi slender salamander (Batrachoseps stebbinsi) is a plethodontid salamander, and one of the larger members of genus Batrachoseps. It is endemic to California, in Kern County in the western United States.
Yellow-eyed Ensatina
Ensatina eschscholtzii (commonly known by its genus name, Ensatina) is a complex of plethodontid (lungless) salamanders found in coniferous forests, oak woodland and chaparral from British Columbia, through Washington, Oregon, across California (where all seven subspecies variations are located), all the way down to Baja California in Mexico.
Limestone Salamander
The Limestone Salamander (Hydromantes brunus) is a lungless salamander, found in a portion of the Merced River Canyon in Mariposa County, California. While Hydromantes is composed of three species found in the United States; H. platycephalus and H. shastae, and Hydromantes is endemic to parts of California, southern France and Italy, the ...more ↓
Mount Lyell Salamander
The Mount Lyell Salamander (Hydromantes platycephalus) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States.
Shasta Salamander
The Shasta Salamander (Hydromantes shastae) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States.
Scott Bar Salamander
The Scott Bar salamander, Plethodon asupak, is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family, endemic to the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss. Plethodon asupak is a moderate-sized, robust salamander with long limbs. It is purplish-gray with white flecks that condense on the sides and ...more ↓
Dunn's Salamander
The Dunn's Salamander (Plethodon dunni) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States.
Del Norte Salamander
The Del Norte Salamander (Plethodon elongatus) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family. It is endemic to the United States. Adults are 2⅜–3 inches long (6 - 7.6 cm) from snout to vent, and 4⅓–6 inches (11 – 15 cm) in total length. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and rocky areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Siskiyou Mountains Salamander
The Siskiyou Mountains salamander, Plethodon stormi, also called the Siskiyou Mountain salamander, exists only in isolated locations along the Klamath River in northern California and southern Oregon. It is a close relative of the Del Norte salamander, and some herpetologists believe it may be a subspecies of that animal.
