Wildlife

English: Andalusian Wall Lizard Scientific: Podarcis vaucheri Spanish: Lagartija andaluza French: Lézard Andalouse German: Andalusischen Mauereidechse Italian: Lucertola Andalusa Portuguese: Lagartixa-andaluz Distribution: southern Spain (Western Andalucia), central and northern Morocco, northern Algeria and northern Tunisia. Similar species: Iberian wall lizard (Podarcis hispanicus) Lagartija ibérica (Basically if you are anywhere other than Western Andalucia its probably … Read more

Non-Venomous Scientific: Anguis fragilis (The previous Spanish subspecies Anguis fragilis fragilis is now with the western European populations) English: Slow Worm Spanish: Lución Portuguese: Licranço Galician: Escáncer común Family: Anguidae Distribution: Northern Spain and north and central Portugal, as well as the entire European mainland. Western Europe, northern Europe and western Balcans) Identification and similar … Read more

English: Spanish Psammodromus / Sandrunner Scientific: Psammodromus hispanicus hispanicus Spanish: Lagartija cenicienta Portuguese: Lagartixo-do-mato-ibérico Family: Lacertidae Distribution: Iberia, Western and central Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). (Absent from most of north and all of north-west.) The northernmost populations were known in the 1980s from Orense, León, Tarragona, Barcelona and Gerona. Subspecies: Eastern Psammodromus hispanicus edwardsianus … Read more