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Kern Plateau Slender Salamander vs. Tehachapi Slender Salamander

Their ranges do not meet: the Kern Plateau and the east slope of the southern Sierra (Kern Plateau) vs the Tehachapi Mountains (Tehachapi). A: Rusty, bronze, grey or reddish with scattered dark flecks and a back stripe in the Kern Plateau Slender Salamander; brown with a patchy bronze back in the Tehachapi Slender Salamander. B: Grey to black, the throat heavily mottled white (no open photo shows it) in the Kern Plateau Slender Salamander; light grey to cream, clearly paler than the back (no open photo shows it) in the Tehachapi Slender Salamander. Early Kern Plateau specimens were taken for Tehachapi Slender Salamanders; range decides: the Kern Plateau and Scodie Mountains vs the Tehachapi Mountains. RANGE IS THE SUREST WAY TO TELL THEM APART: where you are decides which one it is; the rows below help confirm it.

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Kern Plateau Slender Salamander

Batrachoseps robustus

Tehachapi Slender Salamander

Batrachoseps stebbinsi

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