Spanish lizards...? and 2 tadpoles...

[GertJan Verspui]

Hello everybody,

Last week I've been to Sierra de Gredos, Sierra de Guadarrama and some places around it, I saw many lizards/tadpoles and some of them are not clear to me which species they are.

I hope that some of you with more expertise have the answers.

1.Sierra de Gredos, alt: +1600m.

2. Sierra de Gredos, alt: 1580m.

3.Sierra de Gredos, alt: 1560m.

4.Sierra de Gredos, alt. 1480m.

5.Sierra de Gredos, halfway the route to laguna grande, alt:1900m.

6.Sierra de Gredos, halfway the route to laguna grande, alt:1900m.

7.Peña de Francia, alt: 1730m.

8.Peña de Francia, alt: 1730m.

9. Sierra de Guadarrama, alt: 1400m.

10. Sierra de Guadarrama, alt: 1400m.

11.Pond at the southern slopes of Sierra de Gredos.

12.Pond at the southern slopes of Sierra de Gredos.

[Peter Oefinger]

1-4 Podarcis hispanicus type 1
5-6 Iberolacerta cyreni castiliana
7-8 Iberolacerta martinezricai
9-10 Podarcis hiaspanicus type 1
11-12 tadpole!

Best
Peter

[Wouter Beukema]

11: Pelobates cultripes
12: Hyla sp. (both arborea/molleri and meridionalis occur in that area)

Nice martinezricai!

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Nice martinezricai!

Damn, yeah !!!

[GertJan Verspui]

Peter & Wouter, thanks a lot for the help which I really need some times...

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

12: Hyla sp. (both arborea/molleri and meridionalis occur in that area)

The fact that the upper fin/crest runs so far onto the body and that there's only a single clear dark band on the muscular part of the tail, should eliminate meridionalis and confirm arborea/molleri.

[Gabriel Martínez]

Hi GertJan,

You must trust on Peter, Wouter and Jeroen, they know our herpetofauna very well!

I´m sorry you did´n´t find many snakes. Gredos is good for them but maybe is too early. Guadarrama is bad for vipers, but this week we have been very lucky! Last wednesay a male and this morning a huge and nice female

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Regards

Gabri


More in http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrimtnezmarmol/

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

While browsing your Flickr page, I have to say I like this one =>

[Gabriel Martínez]

And some days earlier we found another calamita with a Pelobates (poor spadefoot toad making noises because I think it couldn´t breath)!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrimtnez ... hotostream

What happen with this toads so hot?? They don´t respect nothing! It should have a Roze Buurt for them

[Bobby Bok]

And some days earlier we found another calamita with a Pelobates (poor spadefoot toad making noises because I think it couldn´t breath)!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrimtnez ... hotostream

What happen with this toads so hot?? They don´t respect nothing! It should have a Roze Buurt for them

We Dutch have a solution for everything!

But very nice finds Gertjan, I really want to do a trip like that too someday, I love Iberolacerta's!