Turkish Tortoise Help

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Don't actually have my notes to hand at the moment but was just wondering if anyone had any ideas for me. Turkey, Alanya. June 1994. A Tortoise sp was seen from the castle overlooking the town. Could this be narrowed down to species just from the location?? Any help at all would be appreciated. Additionaly if anyones familiar with the area would you know what the medium sized lizards would be which where commonly seen throughout the town usually on telegrpah poles etc. I know it's not much to go on but I wasn't as interested in reptiles back then as I am now. Thanks.

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Davew Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 105	Post Options Post Reply Quote Davew Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Turkish Tortoise Help Posted: 08 Jan 2005 at 2:44pm
	Hi, Don't actually have my notes to hand at the moment but was just wondering if anyone had any ideas for me. Turkey, Alanya. June 1994. A Tortoise sp was seen from the castle overlooking the town. Could this be narrowed down to species just from the location?? Any help at all would be appreciated. Additionaly if anyones familiar with the area would you know what the medium sized lizards would be which where commonly seen throughout the town usually on telegrpah poles etc. I know it's not much to go on but I wasn't as interested in reptiles back then as I am now. Thanks.

Davew Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 105	Post Options Post Reply Quote Davew Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 Jan 2005 at 12:25am
	Thanks for that - Would the only possibility be Spur-thighed or are there other species in the area? Forget about the lizards I didn't take sufficient notes to even slightly narrow it down although I may have an old photo - I'll have a look.

Wolfgang Wuster Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 374	Post Options Post Reply Quote Wolfgang Wuster Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Jan 2005 at 12:17pm
	What were the lizards like? Greyish-black, robust and rather spiky, adult size roughly 30-35 cm length? In that case it was Laudakia stellio, and agama. Thjese are very common in souther Turkey. A search with the scientific name at images.google.co.uk will bring up a number of photos for comparison. Cheers, Wolfgang
	Wolfgang Wüster School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor http://pages.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/

Davew Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 105	Post Options Post Reply Quote Davew Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Jan 2005 at 1:02pm
	That's exactly the sort of Lizard. If not that species then something very similar. Hopefully I can find a photo I may have taken - thanks for all the help. Incidentally Turkey in 1994 was my last foreign trip where I didn't take notes on Reptiles.