Western ore sneak
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Western ore creep ( Chalcides striatus ) |
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The western ore crawl ( Chalcides striatus ) is a reptile species from the skink family . The species was previously listed as a subspecies of the Italian ore crawl ( Chalcides chalcides ).
features
The western ore crawl, up to 35 to 48 cm long, is built like a snake. Arms and legs are greatly reduced, each have three fingers or toes and hardly have any function when moving. The species is shiny and bronze, yellowish brown, olive or gray in color. The western ore creep differs from its Italian relatives in the larger number (9 to 13) of dark longitudinal stripes and in the second finger, which is just as long as the third in the western ore crawl, while it is longer in the case of the Italian ore crawl.
Occurrence
The distribution area covers most of the Iberian Peninsula , with the exception of a few regions in the east (southern Catalonia , Valencia ), southern France and the extreme west of Liguria . The western ore creep prefers sandy, grassy slopes, avoids forests and occurs at altitudes of up to 1,800 meters.
literature
- Axel Kwet: Reptiles and Amphibians of Europe. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-440-10237-8 .
Web links
- Chalcides striatus in The Reptile Database
- Chalcides striatus onthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Juan M. Pleguezuelos, Paulo Sá-Sousa, Valentin Pérez-Mellado, Rafael Marquez, Marc Cheylan, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Roberto Sindaco, Antonio Romano, 2008. Accessed September 4, 2013.