Armenian Lizard

Armenian rock lizard ( Darevskia armeniaca )

The Armenian rock lizard ( Darevskia armeniaca; older synonym: Lacerta armeniaca ), also Armenian rock lizard belongs, within the family of lizards rights to the species of Caucasian rock lizards, a spin-off from the old collective genus Lacerta.

Description

The Armenian rock lizard is similar in appearance to the wall lizard. It has a pointed head, a slender flattened body and a long tail. The coloration varies in a wide brown tones with larger bluish points on the head that look like shields and small bluish spots on the back and between the flanks to the belly bottom. Her short, almost delicate limbs end in long sharp claws. The total length of the Armenian rock lizard is 18 to 20 centimeters.

Dissemination

The natural range of the Armenian rock lizard extends through the Caucasus from Georgia, Armenia to the north-eastern Turkey, occasionally also in Ukraine. Your preferred habitat is the mountains. There she keeps on at altitudes 1700-2200 meters on warm rock ledges and between rock niches.

Food

The Armenian rock lizard preferably next to insects, spiders and other arthropods and sweet fruit.

Reproduction

The Armenian rock lizard is among the vertebrates with parthenogenesis ( parthenogenesis ). It is an asexual reproduction - there are only females. This place after a winter rest between two and five non- officials eggs from which only slip back only females. The virgin birth can only be found in some lizards Caucasus, in American racing lizards, geckos, some snake species ( eg in the garter snake ) and in some fish. More commonly, it occurs in invertebrates such as rotifers, aphids, water fleas and worms. Cause of the parthenogenesis of the Armenian rock lizard may be a mating partner deficiency or even a kind of reproductive strategy. The Armenian rock lizard is not regarded as endangered species.