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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Greenhorn Mountains Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps altasierrae Jockush, Martinez-Solano, Hansen, and Wake, 2012

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: California

First instance(s) of published English names:
Greenhorn Mountains Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps altasierrae: Tilley, S. G., R. Highton, and D. B. Wake. 2012. Caudata. Crother, B. I. ed., Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, With Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. 7th Edition. Herpetological Circular Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles(39):23–31);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1949 Stebbins, Robert C. and Charles H. Lowe. The systematic status of Plethopsis with a discussion of speciation in the genus Batrachoseps. Copeia 1949(2):116-129
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2012 Jockusch, Elizabeth L., Inigo Martinex-Solano, Robert W. Hansen, and David B. Wake. Morphological and molecular diversification of slender salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps) in the southern Sierra Nevada of California with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa (3190):1-30
2014 Highton, Richard. Detecting cryptic species in phylogeographic studies: Speciation in the California Slender Salamander, Batrachoseps attenuatus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71:127-141

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