What is the latin name of the main type of lizards in NC?

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
13/09/2010 20:57

I'm wondering whether they are a type of chameleon because the ones in our garden change colour to blend with the background.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
13/09/2010 21:18

Cyrtopodion Kotschyi

Hemidactylus Turcicus



Are the two Geckos.

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
13/09/2010 21:24

thanks Groucho. Will google them.





Had a look, I think the cyrtopodion kotschyi may well be the ones in our garden.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
13/09/2010 21:24

We do have Chameleons too... they range from tiny little ones to really quite big in size.



Then there are the horny backed nodding lizards. Agama stellio (or Stellio stellio). This is a large, prehistoric looking lizard that lives mainly on trees and stone walls and can reach a length of well over 30cm.

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
13/09/2010 21:24

They are all outnumbered by lounge lizards in the bars

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
13/09/2010 21:29

I do not know the Latin names of any of the lizards in NC, but I have to say that I find them fascinating. I like them all - big, small, in-between. I think they're lovely creatures.



deputydawg - except, of course, said lounge lizards

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
13/09/2010 21:30

the ones in our garden often come onto the ceiling of the terraces at night. When you turn the light on you can see through them, all the bones etc. There's a big one that lives somewhere in or around our garden wall, it's about 12" long with its tail. Not seen it for ages. Maybe our dog eat it.

Jeannie


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Message Posted:
13/09/2010 21:37

Mike - I sincerely hope Efes has not eaten it. Still, that's nature, I suppose.



Over the many years we have been visiting NC, we've seen some whoppers and many of the 'transparent' ones you've described.



J

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
13/09/2010 21:41

Jean, it was the evening after Efes eat it (I suspect, he was eating something around there) that be became unwell. I thought he'd got it from what he had eaten but it turned out to be parvo virus. Poor little thing.