Oman Part 2 Lizards

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Oman Part 2 Lizards

Postby Jürgen Gebhart » Tue May 07, 2013 2:58 pm

For Peter!

Oman - Lizards - Jürgen = That doesn`t fit, maybe I`m getting to old to picture the real lizards, but I`m still good enough for the Agama`s! :D

Acanthodactylus from the south, A. boskianus or A. ophedurus, no idea

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Acanthodactylus from the north A. boskianus, A. ophedurus, A. blanfordi, no idea

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Acanthodactylus smidti

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Acanthodactylus filicis

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Mesalina adramitana

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We saw about 8 Omanosaura jayakari, but that`s the only pic iI got

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I saw only one Omanosaura cyanura

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Chalcides ocellatus

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Scincus mitranus

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Calotes versicolor

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Follow the paper of Jeroen van der Kooij, Calotes versicolor (itroduced Species) occur only in the City parks in Salalah (1998,1999).
We found them also in Wadi Darbat, in many trees and on many places without trees on rocks. We don`t saw a single chamaeleo.

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Phrynocephalus arabicus - not arabicus, P. maculatus

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Pseudotrapelus sinaitus

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And one of the highlights

Uromastyx benti

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Re: Oman Part 2 Lizards

Postby Mario Schweiger » Tue May 07, 2013 3:09 pm

I think the first 2 are both A. boskianus (show the dorsal stripe - at least in the first 3rd/half of body).
The benti looks great!

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Re: Oman Part 2 Lizards

Postby Thomas Bader » Tue May 07, 2013 3:19 pm

Fantastic!

Some remarks:

The first two are boskianus, I agree with Mario
schmidti
felicis
The cyanura is an absolut highlight!!! fantastic!
The Phrynocephalus is not arabicus, but maculatus, another highlight!
And Uromastyx benti is really awesome!

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Re: Oman Part 2 Lizards

Postby Gabriel Martínez » Tue May 07, 2013 4:14 pm

Hi everybody!

I read something about Pseudotrapelus dhofarensis (for Dhofar populations) and other new species to the Nizwa individuals (Melnikov, Aranjeva & Papenfuss 2013) but I am not sure that both new Pseudotrapelus species are or not recognized by the scientifical community, anybody knows something about this???
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Re: Oman Part 2 Lizards

Postby Peter Oefinger » Tue May 07, 2013 4:17 pm

Thanks, Jürgen. I knew I could rely on you...
Great selection of lizards - the Agama shots are awful!
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Re: Oman Part 2 Lizards

Postby Tomas Mazuch » Tue May 07, 2013 8:00 pm

It looks, that boths species from Oman (P. dhofarensis and P. jensvindumi - Nizwa area) are valid, when you look on the tree (fig. 3, page 83) in the paper, where P. jensvindumi is described. Clade with both species from Oman is sister to the clade containing P. sinaitus. There is P. aqabensis from southern Jordan between the two species from Oman. P-distance between all species are quite high (more than 10,9).
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I read something about Pseudotrapelus dhofarensis (for Dhofar populations) and other new species to the Nizwa individuals (Melnikov, Aranjeva & Papenfuss 2013) but I am not sure that both new Pseudotrapelus species are or not recognized by the scientifical community, anybody knows something about this???
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Re: Oman Part 2 Lizards

Postby Gabriel Martínez » Wed May 08, 2013 9:47 am

Fantastic Tomas! Thank you very much.

We saw both new species and I think that Jurgen got to take photos of the P. jensvindumi in Nizwa. This species seemed more shy than dhofarensis and probably Jurgen was the only one in this trip in taking photos of the species
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Re: Oman Part 2 Lizards

Postby Gabriel Martínez » Wed May 08, 2013 2:53 pm

Yes! Just before the "Bufo"/Rhodorachis/Omanosaura pool. Did you get to take a photo?
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Re: Oman Part 2 Lizards

Postby Jürgen Gebhart » Wed May 08, 2013 4:16 pm

Gabriel Martínez wrote: I think that Jurgen got to take photos of the P. jensvindumi in Nizwa. This species seemed more shy than dhofarensis and probably Jurgen was the only one in this trip in taking photos of the species


Gabri, which one do you mean? On the way up to the pools?
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Re: Oman Part 2 Lizards

Postby Jürgen Gebhart » Thu May 09, 2013 6:46 am

Gabriel Martínez wrote:Yes! Just before the "Bufo"/Rhodorachis/Omanosaura pool. Did you get to take a photo?


Just one, a bad one, You can`t see any difference.

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