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title: "Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander"
description: "Batrachoseps gavilanensis — Anfibi. The Gabilan Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps gavilanensis) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/gabilan-mountains-slender-salamander
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander

> Batrachoseps gavilanensis — Anfibi. The Gabilan Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps gavilanensis) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.

- Scientific name: *Batrachoseps gavilanensis*
- Category: `amphibians` (Anfibi)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 930
- Wikidata: [Q976781](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q976781)
- iNaturalist taxon: [27447](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/27447)

## Names

- en: Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander
- es: Salamandra Delgada de las Gabilan Mountains
- fr: Batrachoseps des Gabilan

## Countries with the most observations

US (699)

## Summary

The Gabilan Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps gavilanensis) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to California in the United States, where it is distributed along the Central Coast region from Santa Cruz to northern Kern County.
This salamander lives in redwood and evergreen forests, chaparral, and California oak woodland habitat. It burrows in soil and forest litter.
This species is up to 16.5 centimeters long, including its long tail. It is gray with brown and black washes, white speckling along the sides, with  19-22 costal grooves, and usually a brownish dorsal stripe…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabilan_Mountains_slender_salamander

## Photo

![Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/gabilan-mountains-slender-salamander/medium.jpg)

Photo: The Vertebrate Pokédex · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/281978796

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/gabilan-mountains-slender-salamander?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).