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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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Can anyone help with ID for these two critters (I think they are skinks?) seen in KTP in February 2010?

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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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Have no references with me, but have a look at Striped Skink, looks like one of the subspecies, or possible splits.....

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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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Rusty Justy wrote:
Have no references with me, but have a look at Striped Skink, looks like one of the subspecies, or possible splits.....

Are they both the same species then, RJ?

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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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They do appear to be of the same species....

http://i39.tinypic.com/15ochti.jpg

If I had a reptile book here at varsity with me, I would give you the name and subspecies, hopefully someone else can finish what I've started?! :D

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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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arks wrote:
Can anyone help with ID for these two critters (I think they are skinks?) seen in KTP in February 2010?

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Hi arks,

It is a Karasburg Tree Skink - Trachylepis sparsa :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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Thanks, JB! Nice to see you here! :D

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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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what kind of huge beast is that? monitor lizard?

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sorry the pics are so blurry but they are screen shots off a very shake video my wife took (handheld camera, maximum zoom)

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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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here's another one

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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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Rock Monitor, nice specimen! :thumbs_up:

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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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Rusty Justy wrote:
Rock Monitor, nice specimen! :thumbs_up:


so both are rock monitors? because I wasn't very clear in my postings: the first two pictures (blurry) were taken on another than the third one

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 Post subject: Re: ID help needed for lizard
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Is this possibly a female ground agama?

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Most agamas I saw had blue/darker markings, as in this example

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and I'd thought that those are perhaps male? Both seen in KTP in February 2010.

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 Post subject: Chameleon ID needed
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I found this chameleon in Kruger three weeks ago and I don't have a book on chameleons so I can't properly ID it. I'm hoping there are some chameleon experts on the forum who can help me ID it :pray:

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 Post subject: Re: Chameleon ID needed
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Its a flap-neck chameleon, Chamaeleo dilepis This is the only species of flap-neck chameleon. While resting and unstressed the body colouration is usually emerald green with white lateral longitudianl barshowever when stressed or handled can become almost black in colour.Light and dark green blotches cover the entire body when the chameleon is on the move, as you can see in your picture.

Great shot! :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:

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 Post subject: Re: Chameleon ID needed
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Madach, I agree with Oddesy... it is a Flap Neck Chameleon. :thumbs_up:

Description : A large chameleon with a continuous crest of small, white, triangular tubercles on the throat and belly. Colouration varies, from pale yellow through green shades to brown. The belly crest is white, and there is usually a pale bar on the sides.

(Source: http://www.krugerpark.co.za/africa_flap ... eleon.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; )

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Thank you oddesy and TheunsH!

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