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Sand Lizard

Lacerta Agilis

Notes:

Found in woody sand mountains... Male

13 Comments

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

You are welcome =)

MartinUrban
MartinUrban 11 years ago

That's fantastic !

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

Now added to your mission Martin :)

MartinUrban
MartinUrban 11 years ago

Maybe you'd like to add this spotting to the 'Reptiles and Amphibians of Central Europe', http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1329...

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

@ Emma, we saw him because he was in brown leaves :)

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 11 years ago

he can use his colors to hide in green leaves and in brown leaves!

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

Yes yes, they are in my book and there is an all green one from Romania http://www.wp1150997.wp182.webpack.hoste...
I will change the ID from unknown

MartinUrban
MartinUrban 11 years ago

yep - the males change colours in the pairing season... and the females are brownish...
but what i mean is that many reptile species in nature have several diffrent colour-morphes... there's that red-back morph,
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?titl...
then there's a white-morph too
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thestickyto...
that longer snout could be an individual anomaly
but i rather say it looks pretty much like a sand lizard...

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

Yes, I have a book where the different colours are shown. Mine should be a male.

MartinUrban
MartinUrban 11 years ago

what i know about them is that they live in habitats like the one you mentioned... and i read that they are quite variable in colour, there's even one variation with a red back reported from bayern...

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

Thank you Martin :)

The problem is that there aren't others that looks as similar and I know absolutely nothing about reptiles. Could there be others possible?

MartinUrban
MartinUrban 11 years ago

i see what you mean - anyway it's a great photo!

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

Thank you for ID suggestion. That was my guess too, but I thought the head wasn't round enough and I found him in a forest, but it was sand ground I think.

Jeannette
Spotted by
Jeannette

Bad Schandau, Sachsen, Germany

Spotted on Jul 22, 2012
Submitted on Aug 2, 2012

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