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Kusadassi In Turkey - Any Reptiles there?: |
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Nashy Member Joined: 06 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 12  View other posts by Nashy |
Posted: 01 May 2006 I am off on my holidays at the end of may - and was wondering if there was any reptiles i could watch out for? |
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Vicar Senior Member Joined: 02 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 1181 View other posts by Vicar |
Posted: 01 May 2006 John, Bound to be plenty out there. I'd suggest just wander and look in likely places, take as many pics as you can, and do the detective work for ID when back. It can be quite difficult, going to places with a 'shopping list' of what to see If you're set on doing some homework before, try Jeroen's site for some clues: http://intramar.ugent.be/nemys/aspmap/nemys/default.asp?grou p=16# Steve Langham - Chairman 
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Jeroen Senior Member Joined: 03 Nov 2004 No. of posts: 121  View other posts by Jeroen |
Posted: 03 May 2006 sorry to correct you, Steve; the better url should be http://intramar.ugent.be/nemys/start.asp?group=16 but as Kusadasi is in the Asian part of Turkey, I am afraid it won't help much. I myself was there in June 2003 but I only had 1 day of a little bit herp-hunting. Near the Artemision, I found Pelophylax (formerly Rana) bedriagae, Natrix natrix persa, Mauremys rivulata, Lacerta trilineata and some kind of newt larvae (but there's shouldn't be no newts, looking at distribution maps ...). At the archeological site of Ephesus: Testudo (graeca) ibera, Pseudepidalea (formerly Bufo) viridis, and Euprepis (formerly Mabuya) auratus. At Dilek NP: "Lacerta" anatolica aegeae and Laudakia stellio + a shed skin of Eirenis modestus. June was certainly too late to find many species. Jeroen Speybroeck http://www.hylawerkgroep.be/jeroen/ |
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John Member Joined: 07 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 15  View other posts by John |
Posted: 03 May 2006 Brilliant thanks for that Now are any of the above latin names - realting to snakes?? Ive heard there is the largest European Viper situated within that region any truth in that? |
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Jeroen Senior Member Joined: 03 Nov 2004 No. of posts: 121 View other posts by Jeroen |
Posted: 03 May 2006 Sorry for the Latin names => Natrix natrix is Grass Snake; the others are Levant Water Frog, Balkan Terrapin, Balkan Green Lizard, Spur-thighed Tortoise, Green Toad, Golden Skink, Anatolian Lizard, Starred Agama, Masked Dwarf Snake Montivipera xanthina = Ottoman Viper; used to be very common around there but has been collected a lot ... Jeroen Speybroeck http://www.hylawerkgroep.be/jeroen/ |
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John Member Joined: 07 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 15 View other posts by John |
Posted: 03 May 2006 Really they collected alot of the Ottomans Vipers - surely it's illegal?? but thanks for the info have looked up Masked Dwark Snake - to no avail any pictures available |
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Jeroen Senior Member Joined: 03 Nov 2004 No. of posts: 121 View other posts by Jeroen |
Posted: 14 May 2006 [QUOTE=John]have looked up Masked Dwark Snake - to no avail any pictures available http://images.google.be/images?hl=nl&q=eirenis%20modestu s&sa=N&tab=wi http://www.herp.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesPages/EirenModes.htm http://www.hlasek.com/eirenis_modestus_6068.html http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Eirenis_modest us.jpg Jeroen Speybroeck http://www.hylawerkgroep.be/jeroen/ |
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