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I saw two of them in 2014 around Vrana lake very surprised with the contrasted pattern !

Niklas Ban wrote:You wrote "totally melanistic", does that mean you have found a ammodytes with paticular melanism?
If yes, would you show us/me a picture?

I suppose you meant "partial"...? That would be something like this:



Find & photos: Dušan Jelić, mt. Dinara, HR, 8. July 2008.

That has got to be one of the most unusual ammodytes I ever saw a picture of, what a beautiful animal!

Bobby Bok wrote:That has got to be one of the most unusual ammodytes I ever saw a picture of, what a beautiful animal!

A totally black one (one of the three found) has already been presented in this forum, but lost somewhere
among the postings...
I'll find the photo and repost it. But this one is an alive individual, and hopefully still lives there, under the
peak of mt. Dinara.
(For reliable friends, the precise spot will be revealed... so you could try for yourself...)
Addendum: Dušan was there "in the field" with a broader team of the State Institute for Nature Protection,
and none of them had much understanding for (t)his find, they were "in a hurry", so they granted him just a
minute to make a few photos... therefore, no measurements, no tissue sample for DNA analysis...

Thank you Bero I know this picture! Are similar animals known from other locations?

Niklas Ban wrote:Thank you Bero I know this picture! Are similar animals known from other locations?

I know only of three totally black individuals, found at a different locality, in the northern part of Croatia.

Check No. 10805 in the literature db!

Aleksandar Simovic wrote:No problem Bero

gemonensis photos: