Batrachoseps gregarius Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998
Batrachoseps gregarius Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 472: 2. Holotype: MVZ 224581, by original designation. Holotype: "Westfall Picnic Ground east of Highway 41, Sierra National Forest, Madera-Mariposa county line, California", USA.
Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) gregarius — 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
Gregarious 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; 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; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 24).
Distribution
Southern boundary of Yosemite National Park south nearly to the Kern River on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada and Greenhorn Mountains, California, USA.
Comment
Confused with Batrachoseps relictus and Batrachoseps nigriventris prior to description. In the Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) nigriventris 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. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 200-201, provided a brief account, photograph, and map.
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