Distribución de Podarcis hispánica (Sauria, lacertidae) en la vertiente cantábrica del País Vasco

Abstract

The distribution of the lizard Podarcis hispania in the Basque Country cantabrian slope, by the exploration of rocky places, walls and construction on the sunnier hillside and valleys, has been notable enlarged. Its more frequented habitats, together with the cantabrian holmoak wood (Querus ilex), were the oakwood (Q. robur) and its serial degrade stages. The lizard is only absent from the Butrón basin (Northern Biscay), the Bidasoa high basin and most of French Basque Country territory (where it was sighted for the first time). The comparison with a sample of cogeneric P. muralis observations determine the spatial requirements of both species