Goldmabuye
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Goldmabuye on Rhodes |
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The Goldmabuye ( Trachylepis aurata ), also called Goldstreifenskink or Goldskink , is a small lizard that occurs in the Middle East.
The distribution area extends from the Greek Aegean islands of Samos and Rhodes via Turkey , Syria and Iraq, the South Caucasus to Iran, South Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. Occurrences in Pakistan are uncertain. On the Persian Gulf , the Goldmabuyen in northeastern live Saudi Arabia , in Bahrain and in the north of Oman . With occurrences in Eritrea , where the type locality is, they reach the African continent.
features
Goldmabuyen are 25 to 28 centimeters long. The tail makes up about half of it. The body is strong and only slightly flattened, the limbs are well developed. Their scales have weak keels, and the scales are shiny. A strip formed from patches that have grown together extends from the tip of the snout, over the eyes and the sides of the body. The back is gold-olive, the belly whitish. Young animals have blue tails.
Way of life
The diurnal Goldmabuyen live on grassy and bushy plains, in rocky areas and in low mountain ranges up to an altitude of 1200 meters. They often use rodent burrows as shelters in which they also hibernate. They are hungry for the sun and usually keep their body temperature 3–10 ° C above the ambient temperature when they are active. Gold mabuyen feed mainly on insects and spiders, but also eat fruit from time to time. The lizards are ovoviviparous . The three to eight young animals per litter are born in a gelatinous egg shell, which they leave soon afterwards.
Subspecies
- Trachylepis aurata aurata ( Linnaeus , 1758)
- Trachylepis aurata septemtaeniata ( Reuss , 1834)
- Trachylepis aurata transcaucasica ( Chernov , 1926)
literature
- Manfred Rogner: Echsen 2. Ulmer Verlag, ISBN 3-8001-7253-4 .
Web links
- Trachylepis aurata in The Reptile Database
- Heremites auratus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Petros Lymberakis, Varol Tok, Ismail H. Ugurtas, Murat Sevinç, Göran Nilson, Ferdi Akarsu, Uğur Kaya, 2008. Accessed November 1, 2013.