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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Kings River Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps regius Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998
buh-TRAY-koh-seps — REE-jee-us

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:
United States: California

Taxonomic Etymology:
Named for the river system in California.
Batrachoseps — Greek batrachos = “frog” + seps = “lizard”
regius — Latin regius = “royal” — refers to the Kings River, a toponym.

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

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
1954 Hendrickson, John R. Ecology and systematics of salamander of the genus Batrachoseps. University of California Publications in Zoology 54(1):1-46
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
1998 Jockusch Elizabeth L., David B. Wake, and K. P. Yanev. New species of slender salamanders, Batrachoseps (Amphibia: Plethodontidae) from the Sierra Nevada of California. Contributions in Science. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (472):1–17
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letter 13:1378-1389
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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