Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) incognitus — Jockusch, Wake, and Yanev, 1998, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 472: 1-17, and <. <8456, Jockusch and Wake, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 363.
Batrachoseps incognitus Jockusch, Yanev, and Wake, 2001, Herpetol. Monogr., 15: 67. Holotype: MVZ 100059, by original designation. Type locality: "near Rocky Butte, 14.7 km NE Highway 1 on San Simeon Creek Road, San Luis Obispo County, CA[lifornia]. . . . 35.683° N, 121.076° W. Elevation ca. 900 m", USA.
San Simeon Slender Salamander (original publication; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 191; 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: 25).
Restricted to the Santa Lucia Mountains of southwestern Monterey County to the San Luis Obispo County line, California, USA, to 1000 m.
Confused with Batrachoseps pacificus and Batrachoseps relictus prior to its description according to the original publication. In the Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) pacificus 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: 191, and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 197-198, provided brief accounts, figures, and maps.
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