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Moroccan mysteries

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:34 am

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This first said spinosus to me, but I think it's a uniform mauritanica.

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Acanthodactylus busacki?

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Acanthodactylus boskianus?

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Tarentola mauritanica?

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algirus-hippocrepis intermediate?
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Re: Moroccan mysteries

Postby Mario Schweiger » Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:14 am

I would say Sclerophrys mauritanicus too.

Yes, busacki, or now margaritae (depends on location)

boskianus: hard. location?

Tarentola: maybe boehmei. for mauritanica (incl, ssp. juliae) much to less and small tubercles (location?)

Hemorrhois a. intermedius? location?
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Re: Moroccan mysteries

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:13 pm

Mario Schweiger wrote:boskianus: hard. location?

5km south of Fort Bou Jerif.

Mario Schweiger wrote:Tarentola: maybe boehmei. for mauritanica (incl, ssp. juliae) much to less and small tubercles (location?)

South of Guelmim. Will have to be boehmi, but was a bit unsure as we mainly saw those pink juveniles.

Mario Schweiger wrote:Hemorrhois a. intermedius? location?

Between Assa and Guelmim.
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Re: Moroccan mysteries

Postby Mario Schweiger » Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:33 pm

so the boskianus should be A. eythrurus belli. boskianus would hardly occur nearby.

ok, boehmei

both, hippocrepis and a. intermedius occur there. it is a challenge. intermedius might have bars but also look like faint hippocrepis
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Re: Moroccan mysteries

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Tue Apr 17, 2018 4:38 pm

Thanks, Mario! However, www.lacerta.de has A. erythrurus belli occurring nowhere near S Morocco... :?

http://www.lacerta.de/AS/Taxon.php?Genu ... pecies=334
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Re: Moroccan mysteries

Postby Mario Schweiger » Tue Apr 17, 2018 4:58 pm

look at the map of Bons & Geniez '96.
maybe in error, but would fit to your specimen
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Re: Moroccan mysteries

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:33 pm

Well, maybe, but '96 is of course ancient ;)
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Re: Moroccan mysteries

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Wed Apr 18, 2018 7:58 am

I asked Geniez and Beukema and they told me it's a female busacki.
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Re: Moroccan mysteries

Postby Mario Schweiger » Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:05 am

ok, +1
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