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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Arguello Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps wakei Sweet and Jockusch, 2021

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 New Species. Delimited from B. pacificus by Sweet and Jockusch (2021, Ichthyology & Herpetology 109: 836–850).

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:
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
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
2014 Highton, Richard. Detecting cryptic species in phylogeographic studies: Speciation in the California Slender Salamander, Batrachoseps attenuatus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71:127-141
2021 Sweet, Samuel S. and Elizabeth L. Jockusch. A new relict species of Slender Salamander (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps) with a tiny range from Point Arguello, California. Ichthyology & Herpetology 109:836–850

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