Relictual slender salamander
The relictual slender salamander is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.
It is endemic to California, found only a small area in Kern County, California.
Distribution
This salamander's range is on Breckenridge Mountain located on the western slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada, east of the lower Kern River canyon in Kern County. Much of what was formerly known as the relictual slender salamander is now attributed to the Greenhorn Mountains slender salamander, the Fairview slender salamander and the Kern Plateau slender salamander.Presently relictual slender salamanders exist at only two sites on Breckenridge Mountain separated by a mere. This locale is south and west of the range of the Kern Canyon slender salamander. The species formerly existed to the west in the lower Kern River Canyon, but these populations have all gone extinct for unknown reasons. Further down the Kern River Canyon, the Gregarious slender salamander occurs.
The relictual slender salamander's natural habitats are freshwater springs and riparian areas, interior chaparral and woodlands, and temperate coniferous forests.