Batrachoseps diabolicus Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998
Batrachoseps diabolicus Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 472: 7. Holotype: MVZ 95446, by original designation. Type locality: "Hell Hollow, at the junction with the Merced River at Lake McClure on California Highway 49, Mariposa County, California", USA.
Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) diabolicus — Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 472: 1-17. Jockusch and Wake, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 363.
English Names
Hell Hollow Slender Salamander (original publication; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 19; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 194; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 15; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 11).
Distribution
Merced River drainage north to the American River at elevations below 300 m along the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA.
Comment
Confused with Batrachoseps relictus prior to description. In the Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) relictus group of Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 472: 1-17; and Jockusch and Wake, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 363. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 194, and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 195-196, provided brief accounts, figures, and maps.
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