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Garden Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps major major)

Created: January 28th, 2010 - 12:48 AM
Last Modified: November 26th, 2013 - 03:36 AM Entered by: Jeff Teel
Record 37096
Country:
United States 		State:
California 		County:
San Bernardino County 		Time:
2007-02-15 00:00:00
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1 		Age:
Sub-Adult 		Sex:
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Rock flipping 		Habitat:
coastal scrub/chaparral/rocky
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Notes

This was found in a small canyon west of waterman canyon on the coastal slope of the san bernardino mtns. just above 2000ft elevation. I'm pretty sure it is major major, although I took no belly shots.

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Comments

Posted by Jonathan Hakim on Jan 14, 2015 at 12:21 PM

Yeah all I can say about that shot is that that's a very interesting looking salamander.

Posted by Will Flaxington on Jan 13, 2011 at 03:33 PM

I pretty sure it was AmphibiaWeb, but could have been MVZ or both.

Posted by Jeff Teel on Jan 13, 2011 at 03:00 PM

Really...?. I have spent LOTS of time up and down WMC, found lots of slenders through out-(most down at the mouth, around the 1800-2000ft level) but all seemed major major to me. I know in Stebbin's he has Gabrieli listed in Kenwood Creek-(as the crow flys, not far from WMC). Where did you find, or hear that gabrieli was found in WMC ?.

Posted by Will Flaxington on Jan 13, 2011 at 02:19 PM

This could be Batrachoseps gabrieli. The nearby Waterman Cyn is known to support B. gabrieli.

Posted by Jeff Teel on Jan 13, 2011 at 12:14 PM

Thanks, I just put the extra major on it. Honestly, it didn't look all that major major to me. After I found it, I showed a pic to a friend of mine who talks with David Wake, and he wished I would of grabbed it. He told me any Slenders from canyons semi high elevation I should grab for him. It was a cool spot, kind of hard to get to though.

Posted by Will Flaxington on Jan 13, 2011 at 04:03 AM

Jonathan says: I wished you looked at belly....that's an interesting looking salamander.

You missed the extra major for the subspecies.