¡Subscribete a nuestro canal!: http://www.dailymotion.com/andinia1 Subscribe here! Aquí vemos a dos ejemplares de lagartos ocelados, más específicamente la subespecie de Timon lepidus ibericus. Uno de ellos está mundado la piel. Más información según Wikipedia:
"El lagarto ocelado (Timon lepidus), es una especie de lagarto propio de Europa suroccidental y noroeste de África; puede llegar a los 70 cm de longitud total, es de color verde o moreno y presenta dos franjas de ocelos azules en el dorso. Durante décadas fue considerado como perteneciente al género Lacerta.
- Biología y ecología
El lagarto ocelado es una especie característica del sureste de Europa, asociada a los ecosistemas mediterráneos. Lo encontramos distribuido en la Península Ibérica, sur de Francia, noroeste de
Italia y noroeste de África. En la península ibérica solo está ausente al norte de Galicia, en la
vertiente norte de la Cornisa Cantábrica, País Vasco y norte de Navarra. Dentro del hábitat mediterráneo parece no depender demasiado de los factores climáticos pudiéndose encontrar en condiciones muy diferentes, aun cuando no ha sido encontrada por debajo de los 6ºC de temperatura media anual.
Es una especie ubicua, que ocupa toda clase de biotopos, excluidos aquellos completamente humanizados, se encuentra en toda clase de cultivos y bosques mediterráneos y de montaña. En general, el lagarto ocelado es una especie que prefiere áreas con cobertura vegetal no muy elevada, puesto que así tiene espacios abiertos donde poder tomar el sol y refugios para poderse esconder. El abandono progresivo de las zonas de cultivo ha hecho que el lagarto ocelado se haya visto desplazado por el lagarto verde (Lacerta bilineata), otro lagarto de medida mediana más acostumbrado a la
vegetación tupida.
Subespecies
a.. Timon lepidus ibericus
b.. Timon lepidus lepidus
c.. Timon lepidus nevadensis
d.. Timon lepidus oteroi"
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Timon lepidus (syn. Lacerta lepida) is a species of wall lizard known as the Ocellated Lizard (Portuguese: sardão, Spanish: Lagarto ocelado).
The Ocellated Lizard is one of the largest members of its family. The adult is 30 to 60 centimeters
(1-2 feet) long and may reach up to 90 centimeters (3 feet). About two thirds of its length is tail. Newly hatched young are 4 to 5 centimeters long, excluding tail.
This reptile is found in various wild and cultivated habitats from sea level up to 2100 meters in southern Spain. It is rare at higher altitudes. It pefers dry bushy areas, such as open woodland and scrub, old olive groves and vineyards, and is sometimes found on more open rocky or sandy areas. It can occasionally seen basking on roadsides. The lizard usually stays on the ground, but climbs well
on rocks and in trees. It can dig holes and sometimes uses abandoned rabbit burrows.
This is a robust lizard with a serrated collar. The male has a characteristic broad head. It hs thick strong legs, with long curved claws. The dorsal background colour is usually green but sometimes grey or brownish especially on head and tail. This is overlaid with black stippling that
may form a bold pattern of interconnected rosettes. The underside is yellowish or greenish. The male is brighter in color than the female and has blue spots on its flanks; there are fewer or none in the female. Young are green, grey, or brown, with yellowish or white, often black-edged, spots all over.
The Ocellated Lizard feeds mainly on large insects, especially beetles, and also robs birds' nests and occasionally takes reptiles, frogs, and small mammals. It also eats fruit and other plant matter, especially in dry areas.
Breeding occurs in late spring or early summer. Males are territorial in spring and fight in the breeding season. The female lays up to 22 eggs in June and July about 3 months after mating, hiding them under stones and logs or in leaf litter or in loose damp soil. It tends to lay fewer, larger eggs in dry areas. The eggs hatch in 8-14 weeks. The lizard is sexually mature at two years of age.
- Distribution
Timon lepidus is native to: Spain, Portugal, Southern France, North-western Italy. The range for each subspecies is:
a.. Timon lepidus ibericus - North-western Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)
b.. Timon lepidus lepidus
c.. Timon lepidus nevadensis - South-Eastern Spain
d.. Timon lepidus oteroi
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O Sardão (Lacerta lepida) é um lagarto da familia Lacertidae. É conhecido por conseguir viver 25
anos em cativeiro, quando confrontado abre a boca e sibila, conseguindo mesmo saltar para o inimigo.
Os machos são territoriais na Primavera. A hibernação ocorre entre Outubro e Abril. O Homem tem sido o maior inimigo e o motivo principal pelo declínio desta espécie. Sofrem uma enorme taxa de mortalidade por atropelamento, já que estes lagartos utilizam muitas vezes as estradas por terem uma boa exposição solar e se aquecerem. Em Portugal não está ameaçado.
