This is Batrachoseps attenuatus, one of the slender salamanders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

A new species of Batrachoseps (Amphibia: Plethodontidae) from the San Gabriel Mountains, southern California.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

The field guide makes it seem easy, but in practice it's pretty hard to tell apart the various species of Batrachoseps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

Batrachoseps campi, described for the first time by Wake (1996), is from the San Gabriel Mountains: a location less than 50 km from downtown Los Angeles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

The most diverse genus of salamanders is Batrachoseps (nearly endemic to this hotspot), which includes the San Gabriel slender salamander (B. gabrieli), recently discovered in mountains in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the California Floristic Province] Reference

Genera allied to the European genera Triton and Salamandra, and to the American genus Amblystoma, may have the body and tail more and more elongated and the legs reduced, as in Spelerpes, Chioglossa, and OEdipina, till they attain the condition of Batrachoseps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

Batrachoseps stebbinsi was named for him.    From Wordnik.com. Reference