Spanish Psammodromus

Spanish Sand Stalker ( Psammodromus hispanicus )

The Spanish Sand Stalker ( Psammodromus hispanicus ) is a lizard belongs to the genus of sand runners ( Psammodromus ).

Description

He is at a body length of five centimeters in total to about 14 inches long and is so much smaller and at the same time kurzschwänziger as the Algerian Sand Stalker ( Psammodromus algirus ). In his youth, he has four to six interrupted longitudinal stripes that are composed of bright spots and drag around the copper - to yellowish- brown back. Gradually turns off this strip drawing, so that the Spanish sand runner shows a dark spot pattern. Often holds a whitish stripes on the sides. When this disappears, the lizard seems plain gray or brown.

During the mating season the male has two blue, white -rimmed Brokering at the armpits and smaller blue spots along the belly sides. The bottom has a shiny pearl-gray color that varies in brownish or greenish tones.

Dissemination and lifestyle

The Spanish sand runner comes in two subspecies in southwestern Europe. Psammodromus hispanicus hispanicus ( Fitzinger, 1826) lives in the west and south of the Iberian Peninsula, Psammodromus hispanicus edwardsianus ( Duges, 1829) on the Spanish and French Mediterranean coast.

This lizard inhabits sandy terrain with low vegetation gestrüppartigem. It runs very quickly over the sand and looking at a fault coverage under a bush. On the sand dunes and corridors of the coast, where they quickly from a bush moves to the next, it is often observed.