Corsica

[mark]

During our spring break, Wouter Beukema and I went to Corsica to do some herping. It was a very succesful trip with lots of interesting animals.

A list of the species we found:
Salamandra corsica
Euproctus montanus
Discoglossus sardus
Discoglossus montalentii
Rana lessonae bergeri
Podarcis siculus campestris
Podarcis siculus cetti
Podarcis tiliguerta
Archeolacerta bedriagae
Tarentola mauritanica
Hierophis viridiflavus
Natrix natrix corsa

And now the photos, enjoy

Salamandra corsica, adult female

Pool with larvae of S. corsica

Habitat of S. corsica

(Message edited by mark_bakkers on May 06, 2005)

 

[mark]

Euproctus montanus, adult

E. montanus juvenile

 

[mark]

And some non caudata photos:

Rana lessonae bergeri

Habitat

Hierophis viridiflavus

 

[william]

cool! i've never seen a salamandra corsica picture before! it looks like you had a great trip!

 

[mark]

Yes it sure was a great trip William

Discoglossus eggs, my silhouette and a S. corsica larvae on the left

 

[TJ]

Absolutely beautiful pictures, Mark.

Would love to have been there!

 

[benjamin]

That's so unfair, a tiny island in the Mediterranean has more species than england.

 

[wouter]

Great photos Mark, I like the bergeri shot.

These are some of my shots:

Salamandra corsica

A huge Corsican painted frog female, Discoglossus montalentii. The greatest known lenght is 62,5 mm (Nollert & Nollert 1992) Does anyone have recent info about this species? This female is way bigger than that.

 

[kamil]

Hi,

great pictures!
But as far as I can measure it from the picture the female is 6,3cm long (just the body)

Best greetings

 

[rubén]

Mark and Wouter, compliments


It's incredible, the dorsal pattern of Salamandra corsica looks impressive; it's like an awesome mixture of Salamandra s. bernardezi x longirostris. Genetic isolation on this species is evident...

 

[sergé]

Congratulations Mark and Wouter!
But...Salamandra corsica is not always that beautiful, most of the times they look much less yellow. You were at a good site!
If I can get my digital camera connected again to the pc I'll get you some pictures from Salamandra infraimmaculata from Turkey...on the Salamander part of this forum then...

Sergé

 

[paul]

Very nice pics Mark and Wouter!

I had never been at Corsica

What high did you find them?
I think there are mountains ut to 2700 m.

Greetings
Paul

 

[wouter]

Serge, most of them where less yellow than the two on these photos, but less than I expected. This weren't really big exceptions. Maybe your are right, and we where just very lucky!

Paul, we found these Salamandra and Discoglossus at about 1200 meters. It's a beautiful place to go to for sure!