Kern Plateau Slender Salamander vs. Greenhorn Mountains Slender Salamander

Their records meet in the high southern Sierra of Tulare County. A: Much larger and robust, with a fairly broad head in the Kern Plateau Slender Salamander; much smaller and slimmer in the Greenhorn Mountains Slender Salamander. B: 16 or 17 in the Kern Plateau Slender Salamander; 18 or 19 trunk vertebrae; a longer trunk in the Greenhorn Mountains Slender Salamander. C: Rusty, bronze or grey with dark flecks in the Kern Plateau Slender Salamander; dark blackish-brown with a dark brown to reddish-brown stripe in the Greenhorn Mountains Slender Salamander.

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