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Relictual Slender Salamander vs. Kern Canyon Slender Salamander

Both were found in the lower Kern River canyon (the canyon Relictual sites now seem lost). A: Smaller, with a short trunk (about 17 trunk vertebrae) in the Relictual Slender Salamander; larger, with a long trunk (20 or 21) in the Kern Canyon Slender Salamander. B: Smaller in the Relictual Slender Salamander; larger in the Kern Canyon Slender Salamander. C: A reddish, yellowish or brown stripe in the Relictual Slender Salamander; dark with pale flecks in the Kern Canyon Slender Salamander.

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Relictual Slender Salamander

Batrachoseps relictus

Kern Canyon Slender Salamander

Batrachoseps simatus
Relictual Slender Salamander vs. Kern Canyon Slender Salamander: comparison sheet with the differences marked

Photographs via iNaturalist under Creative Commons licences; the photographers are credited on the sheet.

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