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Selected California Protected Species

Selected California Protected Species. Kern Primrose Sphinx Moth – FT (1980). Restricted to two areas with known populations: Walker Basin, Kern County, and Carrizo Plains, San Luis Obispo County Inhabits wash areas (sandy soil)

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Selected California Protected Species

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  1. Selected California Protected Species

  2. Kern Primrose Sphinx Moth – FT (1980)

  3. 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

  4. Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle - FT (1980) http://web.mac.com/tsinicrope/iWeb/Site/Riparian%20research.html

  5. 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

  6. Chinook SalmonCentral Valley, Spring Run – FT, ST

  7. Kern River Rainbow Trout (CSC)

  8. Little Kern Golden Trout

  9. Kern Canyon Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps simatus)

  10. Tehachapi Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps stebbinsi)

  11. California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense)

  12. Western Spadefoot (Spea hammondii)

  13. California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii)

  14. Foothill Yellow-legged Frog (Rana boylii)

  15. Western Pond Turtle – CSC (Emys marmorata) Map from Bury and Germano 2008

  16. Male / Female Characteristics

  17. Habitats

  18. Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizi) FT (Mojave), ST

  19. Giant Garter Snake (Thamnophis gigas)

  20. San Joaquin Coachwhip (Maticophis flagellum ruddocki)

  21. Blainville’s Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii) Formerly Coast Horned Lizard (Phrynosma coronatum)

  22. Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia sila) Male Female Current Distribution

  23. Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia sila) Male Male Historic Distribution Female Female Current Distribution Current Distribution

  24. Coloration of Juveniles

  25. Hatchlings

  26. Female Breeding Color

  27. Male Breeding Color

  28. Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)

  29. Swainson’s Hawk (Buteo swainsoni)

  30. Mountain Plover

  31. 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

  32. Heermann’s Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys heermanni) 5 Toes on hind feet 50 – 85 g mass

  33. Giant Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ingens) 5 Toes on hind feet 100 – 150 g mass

  34. San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel (Ammospermophilus nelsoni)

  35. San Joaquin Kit Fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica) Adult Pups

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