Caucasian meadow lizard
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Caucasian meadow lizard ( Darevskia praticola ) |
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The Caucasian meadow lizard ( Darevskia praticola ) is a species of lizard found in the Caucasus , Dagestan , Georgia , northern Armenia , northern and southeastern Azerbaijan, and northwestern Iran. In Europe, it populates northeastern Serbia , southern Romania , eastern Bulgaria , northeastern Greece , European part of Turkey and the southern Russian region of Krasnodar .
features
The Caucasian meadow lizard reaches a length of 14 to 16 cm. Five to six centimeters of this is the body length, the tail is another 1.5 to 2 times as long. It is brownish in color on the back and patterned with a wide, light brown to reddish brown central band, which is lined with black spots on the edges. Dark brown ribbons, lined with light below, extend along the flanks. The belly is whitish, yellow or greenish and unspotted. Your legs are short. The back scales are large and keeled and get smaller and narrower to the side. The scales of the collar are toothed.
Way of life
The Caucasian meadow lizard occurs in the lowlands up to heights of 800 meters. It lives in damp and shady deciduous forests and weedy, damp meadows. It mainly lives in the ground, but can also climb well and is diurnal. In spring the female lays three to six eggs.
Subspecies
- Darevskia praticola pontica (Lantz & Cyrén, 1919), Europe and Western Caucasus (Black Sea coast)
- Darevskia praticola praticola (Eversmann, 1834), Caucasus
literature
- Axel Kwet: Reptiles and Amphibians of Europe. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-440-10237-8 .
Web links
- Darevskia praticola in The Reptile Database
- Darevskia praticola onthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Aram Agasyan, Aziz Avci, Boris Tuniyev, Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic, Petros Lymberakis, Claes Andrén, Dan Cogalniceanu, John Wilkinson, Natalia Ananjeva, Nazan Üzüm, Nikolai Orlov, Richard Podloucky , Sako Tuniyev, Uğur Kaya, Rast, Wolfgang B Ajtic, Varol Tok, Ismail H. Ugurtas, Murat Sevinç, Pierre-André Crochet, Hans Konrad Nettmann, László Krecsák, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2014.