Batrachoseps aridus

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FWS Digital Media Library — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Digital Library is a searchable collection of selected images, historical artifacts, audio clips, publications, and video.The garden slender salamander 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. Discovered in 1969 and formerly recognized as a full species, Batrachoseps aridus. Based on a recommendation by Wake and Jockusch, B.aridus was synonymized with Batrachoseph.

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.