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title: "Santa Lucia Mountains Slender Salamander"
description: "Batrachoseps luciae — Płazy. The Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps luciae) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/santa-lucia-mountains-slender-salamander
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Santa Lucia Mountains Slender Salamander

> Batrachoseps luciae — Płazy. The Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps luciae) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.

- Scientific name: *Batrachoseps luciae*
- Category: `amphibians` (Płazy)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 735
- Wikidata: [Q2211090](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2211090)
- iNaturalist taxon: [27470](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/27470)

## Names

- en: Santa Lucia Mountains Slender Salamander
- es: Salamandra Delgada de Las Montañas de Santa Lucia
- fr: Batrachoseps de Santa Lucia
- nl: Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander

## Countries with the most observations

US (647)

## Summary

The Santa Lucia Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps luciae) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to California in the United States, where it is known only from Monterey County.
This salamander is distributed in the Santa Lucia Range in California's Central Coast region. It lives in moist montane chaparral and woodlands and temperate coniferous forest, and it can tolerate disturbed habitat when adequate cover is present.
This species and several other native California salamanders were described as new species in 2001 when the Batrachoseps pacificus species complex was split…

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

## Photo

![Santa Lucia Mountains Slender Salamander](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/santa-lucia-mountains-slender-salamander/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chuck Wilson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106426528

## Machine access

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