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T. Mauritanica
''Tarentola mauritanica'', known as the common wall gecko, is a species of gecko (Gekkota) native to the western Mediterranean area of North Africa and Europe. It has been introduced to Madeira and Balearic Islands, and the Americas (in Montevideo, Buenos Aires and California). A nocturnal animal with a predominantly insectivorous diet, it is commonly observed on walls in urban environments in warm coastal areas; it can be found further inland, especially in Spain where it has a tradition of cohabitation with humans as an insect hunter. A robust species, up to long, its tubercules are enlarged and give the species a spiny armoured appearance. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It is also known as Moorish gecko, crocodile gecko, European common gecko, and, regionally, as , , , and . Description Adults can measure up to , tail included. Robust body and flat head. Back, legs and tail with prominent conic tubercles. Its regenerated tail is smoother and doesn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haemoproteus Tarentolae
''Haemoproteus'' is a genus of alveolates that are parasitic in birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Its name is derived from Greek: ''haima'' 'blood' and ''Proteus'', a sea god that had the power to assume various shapes. The name ''Haemoproteus'' was first used in the description of '' H. columbae'' in the blood of the pigeon ''Columba livia'' by Walther Kruse in 1890. This was also the first description of this genus. Two other genera—'' Halteridium'' and '' Simondia''—are now considered to be synonyms of ''Haemoproteus''. The protozoa are intracellular parasites that infect the erythrocytes. They are transmitted by blood sucking insects including mosquitoes, biting midges (''Culicoides''), louse flies (''Hippoboscidae'') and horse-flies (" tabanids", "tabanid flies"). Infection with this genus is sometimes known as pseudomalaria because of the parasites' similarities with ''Plasmodium'' species. Within the genus there are at least 173 species, 5 varieties and 1 subspecies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Reptiles Of North America
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Reptiles Of Morocco
This list of reptiles of Morocco is an incomplete collection of reptiles found in Morocco. * Endemic (ecology), Endemic species * Introduced species Crocodilians Family Crocodylidae Lizards Family Trogonophidae Family Agamidae Family Anguidae Family Chamaeleonidae Family Gekkonidae Family Lacertidae Family Scincidae Family Varanidae Snakes Family Boidae Family Colubridae Family Elapidae Family Leptotyphlopidae Family Viperidae Turtles Family Cheloniidae Family Dermochelyidae Family Emydidae Family Testudinidae Worm lizards Family Amphisbaenidae Family Trogonophidae References * * External links Amphibians and Reptiles from Morocco {{DEFAULTSORT:Reptiles of Morocco Reptiles of North Africa, Lists of reptiles by country, Morocco Lists of biota of Morocco, Reptiles Lists of reptiles of Africa, Morocco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Reptiles Of Spain
This is a list of all reptiles living in Spain, both in the Iberian Peninsula and other territories such as Ceuta, Melilla, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands (including marine reptiles that can be found on its shores). Both native and introduced species are included. Order Testudines Family Testudinidae Family Emydidae Family Geoemydidae Family Dermochelyidae Family Cheloniidae Order Squamata Family Chamaeleonidae Family Blanidae Family Agamidae Family Anguidae Gekkota (families Gekkonidae, Sphaerodactylidae, Phyllodactylidae) Family Scincidae Family Lacertidae Family Trogonophidae Serpentes Family Colubridae Family Viperidae Notes References External links *{{Commons category-inline, Reptiles of Spain Lists of reptiles of Spain, Fauna of the Iberian Peninsula, Reptiles Lists of reptiles of Europe, Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Reptiles Of Italy
The Italy, Italian reptile fauna totals 58 species (including introduced and naturalised species). They are listed here in three systematic groups (Sauria, Serpentes, and Testudines) in alphabetical order by scientific name. Sauria (lizards) *''Algyroides fitzingeri'' – Leopold Fitzinger, Fitzinger's algyroides (Endemism, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica) *''Algyroides nigropunctatus'' – blue-throated keeled lizard *''Anguis fragilis'' – common slowworm *''Anguis veronensis'' – Italian slowworm *''Archaeolacerta bedriagae'' – Jacques von Bedriaga, Bedriaga's rock lizard *''Chalcides chalcides'' – Italian three-toed skink *''Chalcides striatus'' – western three-toed skink *''Chalcides ocellatus'' – ocellated skink *''Chamaeleo chamaeleon'' – Mediterranean chameleon *''Cyrtopodion kotschyi'' – tree gecko *''Euleptes europaea'' – European leaf-toed gecko *''Hemidactylus turcicus'' – Mediterranean house gecko *''Iberolacerta horvathi'' – Horvath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Amphibians And Reptiles Of Gibraltar
This is a list of the amphibian and reptile species recorded in Gibraltar. There are five amphibian and twenty-five reptile species in Gibraltar, of which one is critically endangered, two are endangered, one is vulnerable, and three are near threatened. The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: Some species were assessed using an earlier set of criteria. Species assessed using this system have the following instead of near threatened and least concern categories: Class: Amphibia Order: Caudata (salamanders) ---- *Family: Salamandridae (newts) **Genus: ''Pleurodeles'' *** Iberian ribbed newt, ''Pleurodeles waltl'' NT Order: Anura (frog), Anura (frogs and toads) ---- *Suborder: Mesobatrachia **Family: Pelobatidae ***Genus: ''Pelobates'' **** Pelobates cultripes, Western spadefoot toad, ''Pelobates cultripes'' **Family: Bufonidae ***Genus: ''Bufo'' **** Common toad, ''Bufo bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Reptiles Of Metropolitan France
Metropolitan France refers to the area of France located on the European continent, including mainland France and Corsica. It is home to 20 native species of lizards, 13 species of snakes and 3 species of terrestrial and freshwater turtles. 3 species of marine turtles are regularly present in the region, while 3 other have a transient presence. Introduced species include the Italian wall lizard, the pond slider and the common snapping turtle. Lizards Introduced species The Italian wall lizard is believed to have been introduced in Corsica in antiquity. It is a more recent introduction in other parts of Southern France. Snakes Turtles Transient species The green sea turtle (''Chelonia mydas'') has been sporadically reported in the French Mediterranean Sea. The olive ridley sea turtle (''Lepidochelys olivacea'') was observed for the first time in Metropolitan France in 2017, on the Atlantic coast near the Isle of Oléron. Introduced species The pond slider (''Trachemy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Reptiles Of Europe
This is a list of reptiles of Europe. It includes all reptiles currently found in Europe. It does not include species found only in captivity or List of extinct animals of Europe, extinct in Europe, except where there is some doubt about this, nor (with few exceptions) does it currently include species introduced in recent decades. Each species is listed, with its binomial name and notes on its distribution where this is limited. Also this list is incomplete. Summary of 2006 IUCN Red List categories. Conservation status - IUCN Red List, IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: : - extinct, - extinct in the wild : - critically endangered, - endangered, - vulnerable : - near threatened, - least concern : - data deficient, - not evaluated :(v. 2013.2, the data is current as of March 5, 2014) Turtles Family: Testudinidae (tortoises) :Subfamily: Testudininae ::*Hermann's tortoise, ''Testudo hermanni'' (ssp. ''hermanni'': ) (Southern Europe) ::*Spur-thighed tortoise, ''Testudo grae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares Portugal-Spain border, the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the Macaronesia, Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, which are the two Autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous regions of Portugal. Lisbon is the Capital city, capital and List of largest cities in Portugal, largest city, followed by Porto, which is the only other Metropolitan areas in Portugal, metropolitan area. The western Iberian Peninsula has been continuously inhabited since Prehistoric Iberia, prehistoric times, with the earliest signs of Human settlement, settlement dating to 5500 BC. Celts, Celtic and List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montpellier
Montpellier (; ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Hérault. At the 2020 census, 299,096 people lived in the city proper, while its Functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 813,272. The inhabitants are called ''Montpelliérains''. In the Middle Ages, Montpellier was an important city of the Crown of Aragon (and was the birthplace of James I of Aragon, James I), and then of Kingdom of Majorca, Majorca, before its sale to France in 1349. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest universities in the world and has the oldest medical school still in operation, with notable alumni such as Petrarch, Nostradamus and François Rabelais. Above the medieval city, the ancient citadel of Montpelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands, in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea, and the Autonomous communities of Spain#Autonomous cities, autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's capital and List of largest cities in Spain, largest city is Madrid, and other major List of metropolitan areas in Spain, urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
