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[Kevin Byrnes]

Is this an A cisternasii? I found it last year in the Picos de Europa.

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

No.

http://www.magrama.gob.es/es/biodiversi ... -21361.pdf

[Kevin Byrnes]

Thanks Jeroen, I thought it was too far north but I was confused by the orange spots.

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Understandable. That area would also be too chilly for cisternasii, though.

[Gabriel Martínez]

Really nice orange marked specimen. But, as Jeroen said, is quite impossible cisternasii in Picos de Europa. The habitat in north Spain (Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Basque country) and the rest are completely different.

Although we found some years ago a place in Segovia with both Alytes species (cisternasii and obsetricans) in stricty sympatry, obsetricans seems more adaptable to different hábitats, whereas cisternasii is only found in mediterranean hábitats...