Garden slender salamander

Description

The garden slender salamander (Batrachoseps major) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is found in northern Baja California in Mexico and Southern California in the United States. The garden slender salamander's natural habitats, in the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges, are chaparral and woodlands, temperate coniferous forests, arable land, rural gardens, and urban areas. This salamander eats worms of many types and crawling arthropods of lesser size, such as pill bugs. The garden slender salamander is threatened by habitat loss, it is an IUCN Red List Least concern monitored species. One subspecies, the desert slender salamander (B. m. aridus, sometimes Batrachoseps aridus), is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.