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Stu.
Member Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1 |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2003 at 12:30pm |
I have been reading your discussions on common lizard colouration with great interest, but am now a little confused and have a query of my own. Whilst out in the sunshine of SE Essex last week I was fortunate enough to come across three basking lizards. I am fairly sure that two of them were viviparous lizards, but the third one had a very strong green colouration (but not really a bright green). I only caught a brief look at it as it scuttled under some nearby cover, so I was unable to determine the shape of its head. Could it have been a common lizard with this colouration? Or might it have been a sand lizard? (Not a known area for sand lizards). Stu. |
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This is a picture I put up the other day, I've seen adults of a similar colour in the area too, as you say David, it's more of an iridescent sheen than the base colour, but it was picked up by the camera in this shot - though the base colour isn't normal either, much lighter than the more common dark brown juveniles in the area. Edited by administrator |
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j gaughan
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Gemma, this may be a 'wrong' column in this thread / thread in this column _i don't know how it works.
I can't wait until someone takes a serious look at 'colour variation' in Viviparous Lizards; and I'll say no more on it until i've re-checked my old 'Dartmoor site' next summer. John |
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test2
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John I think Stu put the question here because he thought he may have seen a Sand Lizard, though the thread seems to have now moved onto vivi lizard variation, but that's discussion for you!
Perhaps we should start a new thread on the subject in the Common Lizard forum |
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