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Lucia Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps luciae
Monterrey Co., California, September 1995.
Photo courtesy of John Sullivan.
A lunch break during a three day conference - time enough to walk up a hill, to visit a small park, to leave pavement behind and tread a dirt path. As I walked alongside a dry streambed I had little hope of finding any herps, but when I came on some sawn sections of a tree trunk I gave them a roll anyway. Much to my surprise I found a half dozen of these Batrachoseps, in the barely moist litter underneath the logs. You just never know!