Batrachoseps wakei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Plethodontidae
Subfamilia: Hemidactyliinae
Genus: Batrachoseps
Species: Batrachoseps wakei

Name

Batrachoseps wakei Sweet & Jockusch, 2021: 839

• Holotype: MVZ:Herp:293138 (original number SSS 32478), adult ♂, collected by Samuel S. Sweet on 7 March 2010.
• Type locality: “under boards lying against the north-west wall of the abandoned U.S. Coast Guard housing block at Point Arguello on Vandenberg Space Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California, 34.58°N, 120.64°W, 32 m elevation”.

References

Primary references

• Sweet, S.S. & Jockusch, E.L. 2021. A New Relict Species of Slender Salamander (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps) with a Tiny Range from Point Arguello, California. Ichthyology & Herpetology 109(3): 836–850. DOI: 10.1643/h2020027 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Arguello Slender Salamander