Lesser slender salamander | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Urodela |
Family: | Plethodontidae |
Genus: | Batrachoseps |
Species: | B. minor |
Binomial name | |
Batrachoseps minor Jockusch, Yanev & Wake, 2001 | |
The lesser slender salamander (Batrachoseps minor) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.
The lesser slender salamander is endemic to California, in San Luis Obispo County in the western United States. [1]
This salamander's natural habitat is in the chaparral and woodlands and temperate coniferous forests in the southern end of the California Coast Ranges.
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