Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
S.B. Ruth 1970 Journal 4
8 Feb LO? Amphibian Collecting Trip
8 mi. up Clear Creek Rd. off Hwy 9,
Brookdale, Santa Cruz Co., Calif.
sand grains. The first three
individuals previously mentioned
were under rocks. Much searching
of stream borders above and
below this site yielded only
one other individual. A subadult
in wet soil under a rock
slide on the N.E side of
the stream. RCS has the
impression that rock rubble
benches harbor are areas
where colonies of these
salamanders may exist.
The three Ensatina
flavipunctatus which I captured
were all in sopped gravelly
soil near the stream. One
was a juvenile and two
were subadults. All were under
small rocks to about 9" diameter,
embedded in the bank from
2-6 inches of the stream.
The Ensaina was under
a rock about four feet above