Channel Islands Slender Salamander

The Channel Islands slender salamander (Batrachoseps pacificus) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. Due to cool and foggy conditions on the islands where it lives, it is one of the only slender salamanders in California that can be active year-round.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Channel Islands Slender Salamander being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Batrachoseps major
• Batrachoseps gavilanensis
• Batrachoseps luciae
• Batrachoseps nigriventris
• Batrachoseps attenuatus
• Batrachoseps wrighti

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Caudata

Family

Plethodontidae

Genus

Batrachoseps

Species

Batrachoseps pacificus

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