Herp trip to northern Spain and Andorra (16-19 july 2010)

Hi everybody! Rafael Vazquez Graña, Honorio Iglesias García and I made a trip 16-19 july 2010.

Our idea was to findthe European herps

Zamenis longissimus

Hierophis viridiflavus

and

Lacerta agilis

. These species have a bigdistribution area in Europe and another places but in Spain their presence is very restricted.Rafael took holidays two days after than Honorio and I and he began his own expedition. He drove from Galicia(where he lives) to Basque country (meeting point) and he found many interesting herps in Cantabria (

Bufo

calamita

Podarcis sicula

, …), Basque country (

Chalcides striatus

Coronella girondica

) and in Navarra (

Vipera aspis

). This isn´tmy trip but I´ve thought like Rafa found this just before meet with us it could be interesting to show you thesespecies!!!..

Photo 1.

Bufo calamita

by Rafael Váquez Graña.

Photo 2.

Podarcis sicula

, male by Rafael Váquez Graña..

Photo 3.

Podarcis sicula

, female by Rafael Váquez Graña.

Photo 4.

Coronella girondica

by Rafael Váquez Graña..

Photo 5.

Vipera aspis aspis

by Rafael Váquez Graña.

Friday 16 july

at the evening Honorio and I drove from Madrid to the meeting point (Basque country) and when weenter in Basque country we drove by secondary roads in direction to meeting point. In this small time we found two

Zamenis longissimus

road killed and in one quick stop we found two

Anguis fragilis