Sierra Nevada Ensatina
Ensatina eschscholtzii platensis
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- El Dorado Co, CA – photo by Gerold Merker
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- Fresno Co, CA – photo by Patrick Briggs
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- Fresno Co, CA – photo by Patrick Briggs
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- Fresno Co, CA – photo by Patrick Briggs
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- Map by Steve Bledsoe, SWCHR
DISTRIBUTION: In our region, Ensatina e. platensis occurs in California in the Sierra Nevada Mountains from Mount Lassen south to the Greenhorn Mountains.
MEANING OF SCIENTIFIC NAME: Ensatina eschscholtzii platensis (Espada, 1875)
Genus: Ensatina, Latin – ensatus = sword shaped + –ina = similar to — poss. ref. to the teeth
Species: eschscholtzii, honors Johann F. Eschscholtz
Subspecies: platensis, belonging to the Rio La Plata, Uruguay — Espada named this salamander Urotropis platensis because he thought it came from Montevideo, Uruguay
Ref. Ellen Beltz 2006
Ref. E. Jaeger 1962
LEGAL STATUS: No Listings