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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  
Santa Lucia Mountains Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps luciae Jockusch, Yanev, and Wake, 2001
buh-TRAY-koh-seps — LOO-see-eye
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Province/State Distribution:
United States: California

Taxonomic Etymology:
Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander.
Batrachoseps — Greek batrachos = “frog” + seps = “lizard.”
luciae — Latin genitive of Lucia, referring to the Santa Lucia Mountains.

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


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
2001 Jockusch, Elizabeth L., K. P. Yanev, and David B. Wake. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of slender salamanders, genus Batrachoseps (Amphibia: Plethodontidae), from central coastal California with descriptions of four new species. Herpetological Monographs 15:54–99
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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