Sitting on the fence - new species?

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   Not a description of your local conservation organisations attitude to herps - but a whole new species of lizard found in Essex today. 
The Fence Lizard! 
We had much entertainment today watching this little guy scale one of those wooden 6ft panels to sit on the top. This is one our babies from last year so I'm dead proud of him. Saw the first adult out and about in the garden today also, nice brightly coloured male. Spent a good couple of hours watching them both forage over our log pile.

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administrator Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote administrator Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Sitting on the fence - new species? Posted: 09 Apr 2007 at 11:26am
	Not a description of your local conservation organisations attitude to herps - but a whole new species of lizard found in Essex today. The Fence Lizard! We had much entertainment today watching this little guy scale one of those wooden 6ft panels to sit on the top. This is one our babies from last year so I'm dead proud of him. Saw the first adult out and about in the garden today also, nice brightly coloured male. Spent a good couple of hours watching them both forage over our log pile.

AGILIS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1689	Post Options Post Reply Quote AGILIS Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 Apr 2007 at 12:55pm
	hi Gemma your fence lizzy is a superb specimin of ESSEXITUS REX VUlGARIS more common in the Romford Dagenham area than on the eastern coastal regions keith

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Uncle Herp Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Member Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Location: Malaysia Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote Uncle Herp Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 Apr 2007 at 8:03pm
	Nice lizard but different from the Fence Lizard we have in Malaysia.. Ours are the Calotes versicolor species. I keep a couple of them in my terrarium. It's fun watching them especially at feeding time !!!
	Uncle Herp Malaysia Herpetology Club Malaysia Fauna. com uncleherp@malaysiafauna.com