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Skink- lizard

Habitat:

Rocky walls in towns that get a LOT of sunshine, loves places to hide.

Notes:

We usually have so many of these guys in spring, now by summer there are a very few (in comparison left).

1 Species ID Suggestions

Wall lizard - Fali gyík
Podarcis muralis


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11 Comments

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Oh..thanks for sharing local names. Use this local name in your language and English International name.

CikraVajnai
CikraVajnai 12 years ago

we call them "gyik" (means lizard) or "geko" as i mentioned.

CikraVajnai
CikraVajnai 12 years ago

we call them "gyik" (means lizard) or "geko" as i mentioned.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

One more thing please mention Local name along with International name. This will help to everyone to know world wide names of common Organisms.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

You can find exact specie of this Skink from below mentioned links Genera(specie groups) list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skink

CikraVajnai
CikraVajnai 12 years ago

Edited! Thanks for your help :D

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Gecko is household small lizard, outdoor lizards are different than Gecko, this is outdoor wild lizard kind of Skink.

CikraVajnai
CikraVajnai 12 years ago

ok...not a gheko then? We call them "geko" in Hungarian...so i just assumed that's right. So what should I correct it to?

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

That explains!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Its Skink

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

Very streamlined body!

CikraVajnai
Spotted by
CikraVajnai

Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary

Spotted on Jul 19, 2011
Submitted on Jul 19, 2011

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