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All Names

  • English
    • Merrem's Madagascar Swift
  • German
    • Madagaskarleguan
    • Kugelechse
    • Madagaskarleguan, Kugelechse
  • Scientific names
    • Doryphorus maximiliani
    • Uromastyx cyclurus
    • Tropidurus cyclurus
    • Oplurus maximiliani
    • Oplurus cyclurus
    • Hoplurus cyclurus
    • Hoplurus barnardi

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Recent Observations

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What

Merrem's Madagascar Swift Oplurus cyclurus

Observer

tbrooks

Date

Nov 7, 2011

Place

Tsimanampetsotsa (Google, OSM)
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What

Merrem's Madagascar Swift Oplurus cyclurus

Observer

louisedjasper

Date

Feb 9, 2010

Place

PK32-Ranobe Protected Area, Madagascar (Google, OSM)

Description

This was the first and only time I've seen an Oplurus behave like this. It was obviously gravid, stolling slowly along, and then climbed into these twigs and exposed her belly to the sun.

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What

Merrem's Madagascar Swift Oplurus cyclurus

Observer

louisedjasper

Date

Feb 9, 2010

Place

PK32-Ranobe Protected Area, Madagascar (Google, OSM)
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Description from Wikipedia

Source: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 November 2011.