2024-10 Southern Morocco
After a fantastic two weeks in Thailand it was already time to go on a new trip. This time we went to a much dryer country. We visited Morocco for one week and the Western Sahara a few days. I was traveling together with David, Sven and Jayden. We had many targets for this trip, which for me mainly consisted (venomous) snake species. At the end we had a very good trip with some really cool species! Besides that, we were able to save a lot of animals out of the wells and cisterns.
Species observed (40)
Brongersma’s Toad (Barbarophryne brongersmai)
African Green Toad (Bufotes boulengeri)
Mauritanian Toad (Sclerophrys mauritanica)
Sahara Frog (Pelophylax saharicus)
Bibron's Agama (Agama bibronii)
Moroccan Plain Agama (Trapelus boehmei)
Sudan Mastigure (Uromastyx dispar)
Moroccan Spiny-tailed Lizard (Uromastyx nigriventris)
Oudri’s Fan-footed Gecko (Ptyodactylus oudrii)
Atlas Day Gecko (Quedenfeldtia moerens)
Harris's Gecko (Saurodactylus harrisii)
Djebel Bani Lizard-toed Gecko (Saurodactylus splendidus)
Northern Elegant Gecko (Stenodactylus mauritanicus)
Anderson's Short-fingered Gecko (Stenodactylus petrii)
Algerian Sand Gecko (Tropiocolotes algericus)
Ringed Wall Gecko (Tarentola annularis)
Boehme's Wall Gecko (Tarentola boehmei)
Helmethead Gecko (Tarentola chazaliae)
Moorish Gecko (Tarentola mauritanica)
Bosc’s Fringe-toed Lizard (Acanthodactylus boskianus)
Busack’s Fringe-fingered Lizard (Acanthodactylus busacki)
Dumeril’s Fringe-fingered Lizard (Acanthodactylus dumerilii)
Small-spotted Lizard (Mesalina guttulata)
Red-spotted Lizard (Mesalina rubropunctata)
Simon's Desert Racer (Mesalina simoni)
Morocco Cylindrical Skink (Chalcides mionecton)
Ocellated Skink (Chalcides ocellatus)
Many-scaled Cylindrical Skink (Chalcides polylepis)
Dumeril's Wedge-snouted Skink (Chalcides sphenopsiformis)
Algerian Skink (Eumeces algeriensis)
African House Snake (Boaedon fuliginosus)
Algerian Whip Snake (Hemorrhois algirus)
Horseshoe Whip Snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis)
False Cobra (Malpolon moilensis)
Schokari Sand Racer (Psammophis schokari)
Puff Adder (Bitis arietans)
Desert Horned Viper (Cerastes cerastes)
Sahara Sand Viper (Cerastes vipera)
White-bellied Carpet Viper (Echis leucogaster)
Egyptian Cobra (Naja haje)