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APPENDIX E. SPECIAL STATUS SPECIES <br /> _ Listing <br /> Scientific Name Status Covered <br /> USFWS/ Potential for Project to by <br /> Common name CDFG/CNPS General Habitat Impact SJMSCP <br /> t. Clemmys marmorata FSC/CSC/-- Ponds, marshes, rivers, Unlikely.No suitable habitat Yes <br /> western pond turtle streams,and irrigation occurs in the project area. <br /> L ditches with aquatic <br /> vegetation. Requires <br /> basking sites and suitable <br /> upland habitat for egg- <br /> laying. Nest sites most often <br /> characterized as having <br /> gentle slopes(<15%)with <br /> little vegetation or sandy <br /> banks. <br /> Gambelia(=Crotaphytus) FENCE, Occurs in undisturbed open, Unlikely. No suitable habitat No <br /> is. sila CFP/-- valley and foothill occurs in the project area. <br /> blunt-nosed leopard grasslands,valley saltbush Presumed extirpated from <br /> lizard scrub,and alkali playa San Joaquin County <br /> communities of the San (SJMSCP) <br /> Joaquin Valley,Carrizo <br /> Plain,and Cuyama Valley. <br /> Masticophis flagellum FSC/CSC/-- Occurs in undisturbed open, Unlikely. No suitable habitat Yes <br /> ruddocki dry,vegetative associations occurs in the project area. <br /> San Joaquin with little or no tree cover. <br /> coachwhip In the western San Joaquin <br /> (=whipsnake) Valley, it occurs in valley <br /> grassland and.saltbush <br /> scrub associations. <br /> Dependent on mammals for <br /> burrows and prey. <br /> ` Phrynosoma comnatum FSC/CSC/-- In a variety of undisturbed Low. Limited potential habitat Yes <br /> frontale habitats,most commonly in occuts in the Proposed <br /> California horned lowlands and sandy washes Project area. <br /> lizard with scattered low bushes. <br /> Requires open areas for <br /> sunning, bushes for cover, <br /> patches of loose soil for <br /> burial,and abundant <br /> antlinsect prey. <br /> ` Thamnophis gigas FT/CT/-- Generally inhabits marshes, Unlikely. No suitable aquatic.. Yes <br /> giant garter snake sloughs, ponds,slow- habitat exists in the project <br /> moving streams,ditches, area. <br /> and rice fields which have <br /> ` water from early spring <br /> through mid-fall,emergent <br /> vegetation(such as cattails <br /> and bulrushes),open areas <br /> for sunning,and high <br /> ground for hibernation and <br /> escape cover. <br /> r <br /> V <br /> Environmental Science Associates E-5 RMC Vernalis Project <br /> L Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report <br /> Preliminary-Subject to Revision <br /> ,1r <br />