Algyroides...??

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Algyroides...??

Postby Kevin Byrnes » Sat Oct 26, 2013 2:46 pm

I am staying in Kefalonia this week and have just spotted this lizard in the garden, moreoticus or nigropunctatus?
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Re: Algyroides...??

Postby Liam Russell » Sat Oct 26, 2013 2:52 pm

I vote for moreoticus, the back and flank scales are of similar size, nigropunctatus has larger scales on the back compared to the flanks.
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Re: Algyroides...??

Postby Kevin Byrnes » Sat Oct 26, 2013 3:14 pm

I hope so, it would be a new species for me, our first day went well with P tauricus in the airport car park and then 4 C caretta in the harbour.
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Re: Algyroides...??

Postby Kristian Munkholm » Sat Oct 26, 2013 4:31 pm

I'm hardly qualified, but I'll say for moreoticus as well, though I've never seen one and haven't checked my field guide for indentifying features - simply because it looks quite different from all the several nigropunctatus I have seen ;)
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Re: Algyroides...??

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Sun Oct 27, 2013 11:32 am

Yes!
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Re: Algyroides...??

Postby miguel santos » Mon Oct 28, 2013 1:15 pm

I've seen both in the last 2 years and in my modest opinion I vote for moreoticus.
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