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Hi people,

We are working in the trip report of Morocco 27 april-6 may. It will be prepared in 10 days I think. I upload some photos to ID. I think that it could be fun specially for Mario or Pierre-Yves that visit Morocco sometimes, although everybody is invited to try to know the species or the genus!!! Some photos are very easy, other medium level, other photos very very difficult and other I dont know what it is after consulting all the books!! (P. Geniez neither)...

Discoglossus scovazzi
Blanus tingitanus
Hyla meridionalis
Tarentola
Saurodactylus brosseti
Podarcis vaucheri
3x Chalcides
Malpolon monspesulanus
Testudo gr. marokkensis
Eumeces algeriensis
Spalerosophis?
Hemidactylus turcicus
Stenodactylus sp.
Cerastes vipera
Natrix maura
Rhagerhis moilensis
dead snake
Cerastes cerastes
Varanus griseus
Uromastyx nigriventris
2x Tarentola
Alytes maurus
Timon tangitanus
Hemorrhois algirus
some kind of very large viper
Hemorrhois hippocrepis
Echis leucegaster
Lytorhyncus diadema
Ptyodactylus foot
nice snake, but dead

Mario

What a crazy Idea!!

Maybe you have been in the sun too long????

Show me the head of the Macrovipera, immediately!

Mario Schweiger wrote:Discoglossus scovazzi
Blanus tingitanus
Hyla meridionalis
Tarentola
Saurodactylus brosseti
Podarcis vaucheri
3x Chalcides
Malpolon monspesulanus
Testudo gr. marokkensis
Eumeces algeriensis
Spalerosophis?
Hemidactylus turcicus
Stenodactylus sp.
Cerastes vipera
Natrix maura
Rhagerhis moilensis
dead snake
Cerastes cerastes
Varanus griseus
Uromastyx nigriventris
2x Tarentola
Alytes maurus
Timon tangitanus
Hemorrhois algirus
some kind of very large viper
Hemorrhois hippocrepis
Echis leucegaster
Lytorhyncus diadema
Ptyodactylus foot
nice snake, but dead

Very very good response Mario ! Only 4 fails

Jürgen Gebhart wrote:What a crazy Idea!!

Are you already here!?

Jürgen Gebhart wrote:Maybe you have been in the sun too long????

Yes, indeed

Jürgen Gebhart wrote:Show me the head of the Macrovipera, immediately!

I think that you have more interesting recent things to show in this forum than the head of a Daboia mauritanica We want to see the Israel trip right now!!!!

Gabriel,
after the quiz has been solved now, I would enjoy to see the complete pictures...

@Jürgen: I've seen the new pictures on lacerta.de - heading for your report!

Peter Oefinger wrote:Gabriel,
after the quiz has been solved now, I would enjoy to see the complete pictures...

Sorry if I can seem a stupid but I would wish if Pierre Yves or somebody can find the 4 fails.

One of them is Cerastes vipera. We were herping in the perfect habitat during a night without wind. Many tracks of birds, invertebrates, lizards... but no tracks of Cerastes vipera. Mario can recognize the habitat, is perfect!!! I dont know why?? Maybe the moon¿? We didnt find Cerastes vipera in all the trip and this was the only sure species for me before arriving to Morocco...

Interesting!

Gabriel Martínez wrote:Maybe the moon¿?

At least in US deserts, it is considered rather crucial. This is one of the reasons why I chose the timing of my forthcoming Arizona trip in September like I did. Hopefully, it pays off. Would be nice to hear other people's opinions...

So one fail is Cerastes vipera - should be C. cerastes then!

Gabri, also during our visit in Merzouga, we found not one trail of C. vipera. Both specimens observed have been detected close to their hiding place.
As I know from my other trips before, it is much to early (1st half of May) to find C. cerastes, C. vipera, Lytorhynchus at night.
Visiting the area in summer and autumn, the dunes are full with tracks, and then you find the animals too.
You may not compare the coastal dunes, like Khnifis lagoon and others with the interior.

Mario

mmm I see this topic now... what to say after the master ? Gabri, please repost the failing pictures thanks but I can't do better I think...
You discover all in ONE TRIP ????


= Natrix maura


= Macroprotodon sp. ? cucullatus brevis ?


Varanus griseus


Bufo mauritanicus


= baby Spalerosophis or Lytorhynchus sp. ?


Malpolon dor ? Jerada... in the north... Natrix natrix astreptophora ?!