Chioglossa lusitanica

[azzel]

Hello,
near the place where I live are some populations of Chioglossa lusitanica, in nortwest Spain.
Here you have some pics.
This is the typical habitat of Chioglossa, cold streams with lots of vegetation and dead leaves in the banks. This little salamander like cool places to live and breed.

Some adult Chioglossa:

Here you can see the size of an adult

Detail of the head

these are the eggs and larvaes. The eggs are very big, near 1cm.

In this habitat lives too other amphibians as:

Salamandra salamandra gallaica

Triturus boscai with Salamandra larvae

young Triturus boscai

Rana Iberica

I hope you like these pics.
Best regards, Marco

 

[Azhael]

I´m green of envy...o__o
Welcome to the forum fellow spanish freak hehehe btw...your nick really scares me xD
Great photos by the way, i love the habitat...that´s my idea of paradise xD.

 

[Ralf]

I sure do, Azzel. Great animal and habitat pictures. Thank you very much.

 

[Odesseiron]

I have to go to Spain. ; )
At first, the Azhael's photos, now yours. I'm really impressed the Spanish nature and animals.
Honestly I'm a little bit jealous, cause I feel like I'm living in a wrong place. Of course Poland is also very beautiful, but I can't compare its nature to Spanish.

 

[juan_manuel]

Congratulation!!
Nice pics

 

[Mark]

Thanks for sharing Marco. It's great to see shots of eggs and larvae. The streams appear to be fast flowing (could just be the photo exposure). Do you find the adults in the flow of the water or only in calmer water?

 

[will_j]

fantastic pictures there! Anyone else think that those chinoglossa look more eurycea like than some eurycea!

 

[tdimler]

Thanks for the photos....especially the salamandra ;-)

 

[azzel]

Thanks to everybody

The adult Chioglossas are out of the water, under dead leaves, rocks and Dead wood, but near the water. The eggs and can be found are in some little places were the water is slower, but always flowing. I have found groups of aproximately 20 eggs.

 

[jpmf]

Azzel
Great photos.
You must come over here (Portugal) so we can visit some places to shoot some nice pics too.