Selected California Protected Species

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Selected California Protected Species
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Kern Primrose Sphinx Moth FT (1980)
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• Restricted to two areas with known populations
  Walker Basin, Kern County, and Carrizo Plains,
  San Luis Obispo County
• Inhabits wash areas (sandy soil)
• Adults emerge from pupae in Feb./March, mate, and
  lay eggs (and then die)
• Eggs hatch, young go through 5 instars, and
  pupate in May
• Require Plains Evening Primrose (Camissonia
  contorta epilobiodes) as food
• Fillaree (Erodium sp.) is a non-native invader
  that attracts moths to lay eggs, but larvae
  cannot eat this plant and starve

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Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle - FT (1980)
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• Once thought to live throughout Central Valley,
  but now known only from lower Sacramento and
  upper San Joaquin valleys
• Found only on elderberry (Sambucus sp.) that have
  a girth of 15 65 cm
• Adults diurnal and active from mid-March to early
  June (late April mid-May best)
• Adult males may only live a few days females a
  few weeks
• Females lay eggs in crevices of bark larvae
  burrow into the tree and eat for 1 2 yrs before
  pupating emerge as adults
• Characteristic emergence holes best evidence of
  this species

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Chinook SalmonCentral Valley, Spring Run - FT
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Kern River Rainbow Trout (CSC)
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Little Kern Golden Trout
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Kern Canyon Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps
simatus)
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Tehachapi Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps
stebbinsi)
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California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma
californiense)
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Western Spadefoot (Spea hammondii)
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California Red-legged Frog (Rana
draytonii)
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Foothill Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii)
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Western Pond Turtle CSC (Emys marmorata)
Map from Bury and Germano 2008
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Male / Female Characteristics
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Habitats
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Giant Garter Snake (Thamnophis gigas)
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San Joaquin Coachwhip (Maticophis flagellum
ruddocki)
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Blainvilles Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma
blainvillii) Formerly Coast Horned Lizard
(Phrynosma coronatum)
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Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia sila)
Male
Female
Current Distribution
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Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia sila)
Male
Male
Historic Distribution
Female
Female
Current Distribution
Current Distribution
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Coloration of Juveniles
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Hatchlings
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Female Breeding Color
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Male Breeding Color
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Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)
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Swainsons Hawk (Buteo swainsoni)
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Mountain Plover
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San Joaquin Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys nitratoides)
- 4 toes on hind feet
Tipton kangaroo rat (D. n. nitratoides) 30-40 g
mass
Short-nosed kangaroo rat (D. n.
brevinasus) 35-45 g mass
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Heermanns Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys heermanni)
5 Toes on hind feet
50 85 g mass
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Giant Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ingens)
5 Toes on hind feet 100 150 g mass
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San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel (Ammospermophilus
nelsoni)
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San Joaquin Kit Fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)
Adult
Pups