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Davew
Senior Member Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 105 |
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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. |
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Davew
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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. |
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Wolfgang Wuster
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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.
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Wolfgang Wüster
School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor http://pages.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/ |
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Davew
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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. |
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