Batrachoseps altasierrae Jockusch, Martínez-Solano, Hansen, and Wake, 2012
Batrachoseps altasierrae Jockusch, Martínez-Solano, Hansen, and Wake, 2012, Zootaxa, 3190: 13. Holotype: MVZ 59909, by original designation. Type locality: "1.5 mi [2.4 km] SE Alta Sierra [Greenhorn Mountains], Kern Co., California, USA (35.732°N, 118.538°W)".
English Names
Greenhorn Mountains Slender Salamander (original publication; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 24).
Distribution
Higher elevations (900-2440 m) of the southern Sierra Nevada from the northern side of lower Kern River Canyon to the Tule River drainage and upper elevations of the Little Kern Rier drainage in Kern and Tulare counties, California, USA; also from the western margins of the Kern Plateau, east of the Kern River, California, USA.
Comment
Confused with Batrachoseps relictus prior to its naming and the sister species of Batrachoseps kawia according to the original publication.
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