Retreats to subterranean refugia during dry periods. Area of surface activity probably covers, or is proximal to, the area of underground activity. Individuals have not been observed to actively defend resources, but females of related species are commonly found in the immediate vicinity of egg clusters. A semifossorial species able to enter termite tunnels, earthworm burrows and other small openings not available to other more robust salamanders. May compete for food resources with juvenile salamanders of other species where their ranges overlap.
Primary predators are probably small snakes such as the ringneck snake.
Stomach contents of the salamander Batrachoseops attenuatus in California. Brame, A. H., Jr., and K. F. Murray. Los Angeles Co. Mus. Cunningham, J. D. 1960. Aspects of the ecology of the Pacific slender salamander, Batrachoseps pacificus, in southern California.