Sentences with phrase «slender salamander»

The Channel Islands slender salamander probably eats a similar array of prey items.

Several endemic reptile species including the island fence lizard, island night lizard, and Channel Islands slender salamander live on the islands.

Fairly robust for a slender salamander, with relatively long legs.

The Channel Islands slender salamander (Batrachoseps pacificus) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family.

Conservation Status The most recent edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species listed the Channel Islands slender salamander as of Least Concern since, although its Extent of Occurrence is much less than 5,000 per square kilometer, it is common and occurs in an area of extensive, suitable habitat which appears not to be under threat, it has a presumed large population, and it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

Range The Channel Islands slender salamander is an endemic species found only on the Channel Islands, although not on Santa Barbara Island.

Several endemic reptile and amphibian species including the island fence lizard, island night lizard, and Channel Islands slender salamander live on the islands.

Introduction The Channel Island slender salamander is found on Santa Cruz, San Miguel, Santa Rosa, and Anacapa islands and is the only endemic amphibian found on any of the California islands.

What we thought was going to be a lizard turns out to be slender salamander, which are great for gardens (they eat tons of slugs), but impossible to acquire food for in captivity.

Listing Proposal: California golden trout, Lake Sammamish kokanee salmon, black - footed albatross, cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, western gull - billed tern, dusky tree vole, Alabama pearlshell, Choctaw bean, coquí llanero, fuzzy pigtoe, Mohave ground squirrel, Mojave fringe - toed lizard, narrow pigtoe, Oklahoma grass pink, Ozark chinquapin, round ebonyshell, San Bernardino springsnail, southern kidneyshell, southern sandshell, tapered pigtoe, Tehachapi slender salamander, Three Forks springsnail, 23 species from Oahu.

The black - bellied slender salamander, for instance, would have no problem spreading from its home range around Santa Barbara to the more northern central coast region.

Unlike other species of Batrachoseps occurring at low elevations on the mainland in which surface activity declines following the rainy season, Channel Islands slender salamanders remain surface active at some sites throughout the year.

In scrub oak habitat, black - bellied slender salamanders seem to be the predominant species.

In one February survey, researchers recorded 155 Channel Islands slender salamanders and 152 black - bellied slender salamanders in similar habitat.

There are four toes on the front and hind feet, which is also typical of slender salamanders.

Occasionally, individual Channel Islands slender salamanders coil when cover objects are removed.

Has not been described in Channel Islands slender salamanders, although all Batrachoseps species observed thus far capture prey using a projectile tongue and feed on small invertebrates.

Channel Islands slender salamanders can be abundant under surface cover when the substrate is especially wet, but Schoenherr et al. (1999) indicate that Batrachoseps on San Miguel Island are never particularly abundant.

There are no known threats to Channel Islands slender salamanders.

Channel Islands slender salamanders (Batrachoseps pacificus) are restricted to the northern Channel Islands off the Pacific Coast of south - central California: East Anacapa, Middle Anacapa, West Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel islands (Van Denburgh and Slevin, 1914; Brame and Murray, 1968; Wake and Jockusch, 2000).

It has short limbs, a narrow head, long slender body, very long tail, and with its conspicuous costal and end of torso grooves, this species has the worm - like appearance typical of most slender salamanders.

Although females may reach a larger maximum size in Channel Islands slender salamanders, it is unclear whether average adult sizes vary significantly between sexes.

In one February survey, collectors obtained 155 Channel Islands slender salamanders and 152 black - bellied slender salamanders (Brame and Murray, 1968).

Habitat Channel Islands slender salamanders occur in grassland, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, riparian, oak woodlands, and pine forest communities.

Channel Islands slender salamanders occur in grassland, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, riparian, oak woodlands, and pine forest communities.

Surface activity of Channel Islands slender salamanders in winter is limited by moisture rather than low temperatures, as freezing conditions are rare on the northern Channel Islands (Schoenherr et al., 1999).

Only Channel Islands slender salamanders were found under dried cow pies in open grassland.

However, only Channel Islands slender salamanders were found under driftwood on a sandy substrate near the ocean.

«Three new slender salamanders (Batrachoseps) with a discussion of relationships and speciation within the genus.»

Goldberg et al. (2000) reported an infection rate of 57 % (99 of 174 animals examined) in Channel Islands slender salamanders and recorded the following helminths: Mesocestoides sp. (a cestode) and Batracholandros salamandrae and Oswaldocruzia pipiens (both nematodes).

Channel Islands slender salamanders are broadly sympatric with black - bellied slender salamanders (B. nigriventris) on Santa Cruz Island, where both species tend to occupy similar habitats (Campbell, 1931b; Schoenherr et al., 1999).

Typical of most slender salamanders, when disturbed, this salamander may coil up and remain still, relying on cryptic coloring to avoid detection.

Channel Islands slender salamanders have been collected in every month, a reflection of the mild marine climate that prevails in the northern Channel Islands.

Twice as many side - blotched lizards and Channel Islands slender salamanders were observed during a springtime population count on East Anacapa compared to populations observed on Middle Anacapa, Faulkner said.