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<br /> 32 <br />TABLE 2B: SPECIAL STATUS SPECIES THAT COULD OCCUR IN THE PROJECT VICINITY. <br />ANIMALS (adapted from CDFW 2023) <br />Species Listed as Threatened or Endangered under the State and/or Federal Endangered Species Acts <br />Common and scientific names Status <br />General habitat <br />description *Occurrence in the study area <br />California tiger salamander <br />Ambystoma californiense <br />FT, CT Breeds in vernal pools <br />and stock ponds of <br />central California. <br />Adults aestivate in <br />grassland habitats <br />adjacent to the breeding <br />sites. <br />Unlikely. LOA Senior Associate <br />Herpetologist Dr. Mark Jennings <br />visited the site on March 28, 2014, <br />to assess the site for suitability to <br />support special status amphibians <br />and reptiles. Dr. Jennings found <br />that breeding habitat for this <br />species does not exist on the site, <br />there are only a few small mammal <br />burrows on the site suitable for <br />estivation, and although one larvae <br />was identified in 2011 (CNDDB <br />2014) approximately two miles <br />south of the site on East Bay <br />Regional Park District land within <br />pond #028, the Lester site is <br />outside of the native range for CTS, <br />and therefore, CTS would not be <br />expected to occur on the site. The <br />site is not located within critical <br />habitat designated by the USFWS <br />for CTS, however, it is located <br />within modeled potential upland <br />habitat and the CTS South <br />mitigation area of the East <br />Alameda County Conservation <br />Strategy (EACCS).