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Autor(en)/Author(s): Broggi Mario F.

Artikel/Article: Herpetological notes on Mauremys, Pelophylax and Stellagama from the Cyclades island of Tinos () 225-229 All_Short_Notes:SHORT_NOTE.qxd 12.02.2019 14:31 Seite 7

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Herpetological notes on Mauremys , time the maximum did not exceed 16 °C, Pelophylax and Stellagama from the while the nights remained below 10 °C. The excursions were centered on the Cyclades island of Tinos (Greece) mouths of streams and their water-bearing upper reaches, which in part were difficult The mountainous island of Tinos (195 to follow or inaccessible. The water was km 2) in the northern Cyclades archipelago searched for Mauremys rivulata (VAlENCi- (Greece) was subject to several herpetolog - ENNES , 1833 ) and Pelophylax kurtmuelleri ical contributions ( BiBRON & B ORy DE (G AyDA , 1940) . Another focus was put on SAiNT ViNCENT 1833; ERBER 1867; B ED- Stellagama stellio stellio (liNNAEuS , 1758) . RiAGA 1882; B OETTGER 1888; B iRD 1935; The map used for the excursion was the WERNER 1937, 1938 a, 1938 b; B uCHHOlZ GPS-compatible 1: 27 000 map no. 10.20 of 1963; C lARk 1969; B EuTlER & G RuBER Tinos by the mapping and publishing com - 1977; B EuTlER & F RöR 1980; B OHlmANN et pany Anavasi (Athens). al. 1981; CATTANEO 1999, 2000; TROiDl & Roughly translated, BEuTlER & F RöR TROiDl 2006). Nonetheless, there are her - (1980) wrote about Tinos: “it has what is petological reports from the 19th century, probably the best preserved wetland in the which have never been confirmed as to sev - Northern Cyclades, the lagoon of koli - eral allegedly occurring on that bithra. There is another lagoon near Ormos island. These include the Slow Worm, Dice Panormou. Smaller ponds were found Snake, Common , Green Toad, Euro- around Tinos Town, Tripotamos, kardiani pean Tree Frog and Fire-bellied Toad ( An - and isternia.” Regarding the occurrence of guis fragilis , Tropidonotus hydrus , Triton M. rivulata , they reported sightings at Or - taeniatus , Bufo variabilis , Hyla arborea and mos Panormou, in ditches between koni, Bombinator igneus in the terminology used kalloni and kolibithra and in the lagoon at in the corresponding paper by ERBER 1867), kolibithra. BOHlmANN et al. (1981) saw as well as Emys orbicularis (l iNNAEuS , one specimen near Panormos. The World 1758) and Eryx jaculus (l iNNAEuS , 1758) Wide Fund for Nature – Greece compiled an mentioned by BiBRON & B ORy DE SAiNT - inventory of the wetlands of the Greek ViNCENT (1833). Three of these species, the islands in 2004-2013 ( WWF GREECE 2014) Slow Worm, Common Newt and Fire-bel - and allowed the author to access the data. lied Toad are not even known from any This inventory includes four M. rivulata other Cyclades island, whereas there is a habitats on Tinos, namely Panormos, koli - late report on a burrowing, snake-shaped bithra, Agios ioannis and livada Bay. observed on Tinos at dusk, which TROiDl & T ROiDl (2006) reported hundreds may have been E. jaculus (BEuTlER & F RöR of these turtles at Panormos. 1980). Heinz Grillitsch (Vienna) offered the The sites identified by the WWF on following explanation in response to the Tinos were visited and presented the follow - author’s enquiry (e-mail of 14.11.2017). ing situations: The Panormos site (with ERBER visited the islands of Tinos and Corfu more than 100 specimens) comprised the on the same trip. With the exception of last 80 meters of a stream before it reached Bombina , all of ERBER ’s (1867) Tinos the sea. The water body bordered the road species are found on Corfu. ERBER may on the edge of the village at Panormos Bay. have confused the two islands, although he The terrapins here seemed to be less shy otherwise provided detailed descriptions of than usual. in the large brackish water the island of Tinos. lagoon of kolibithra (Fig. 2), more than a To approach any of the above ques - hundred specimens were observed along the tions, the author and his companions flat reed beds. Also, about 100 specimens Christian Burri, Peter Goop and Günter were found in the waters of the stream Stadler visited the island of Tinos (Fig. 1) impounded by the barrier beach in livada from April 2-13, 2018. During that period Bay. it was not possible to confirm the the weather conditions were not the best for reports for the degraded wetland near Agios herpetological observations. it was some - ioannis. The same applies to the reports by times windy and rather cool, most of the BEuTlER & F RöR (1980) for the “ditches be- All_Short_Notes:SHORT_NOTE.qxd 12.02.2019 14:31 Seite 8

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tween koni, kalloni and kolibithra”, where streams and brackish water present in some no open water was found. The wetland of the lower courses of the streams, which areas east of Tinos Town no longer existed are separated from the sea by the barrier either. beach effect. Also, the occurrence of B. On April 6, 2018, a sizeable popula - variabilis can be considered improbable as tion was detected along the stream that runs its tadpoles would have been numerous in from Falatados to livada Bay. Following the water bodies at the time of visit but the stream starting at the hamlet of Plati, were not seen. several groups of terrapins were seen bask - The lower courses of the abovemen - ing (Fig. 3). it was the largest population tioned island streams, which still contained the author ever observed along a water - water in April thanks to the impounding course in the Aegean. effect of the barrier beachs, and the long in addition to these observations, two stretches of their headwaters, are now en- more sightings were made in streams on dangered sites. The construction of reser - Tinos: On April 9, 2018, in a tributary voirs deprives the lowest stream stretches of stream above Agapi, at about 80 m above water, as could be seen in the stream dis - sea level, two adult Mauremys specimens charging east of Tinos Town. All the moun - were found in a small backwater covered tain streams that bore water were used for with duckweed (37° 36.145” N, 25° 10.046” irrigation. Wherever possible, siphon in- E). This is the location of a former water takes with hoses were installed for diversion mill, which suggests that flowing water is of water, in some cases the water was available there frequently. On April 4, pumped and often transported over long dis - 2018, Günter Stadler came across a single tances to open or covered cisterns. Open subadult specimen in the impounded water cisterns can be home to water frogs, depend - of a stream near machera, along the road ing on the construction. from marlas to koumelas (37° 39.987” N, in the Cyclades, the Roughtail Rock 25° 00.799” E). The stream has weirs to Agama, Stellagama stellio (liNNAEuS , hold back the water, and below the observa - 1758), is found in the mykonos archipela - tion point the stream had dried up. This go (islands of mykonos, Delos, Rhineia location appeared to be very isolated, not and Tinos) and more southwards, in the connected to any other water-bearing site in Naxos-Paros-Antiparos-Despotico island the same hydrological system. complex (V AlAkOS et al. 2008). The latest The three sites described in the stream land bridge connecting the Cyclades mouth areas with barrier beach or lagoon islands to the mainland disappeared more formations are thus still home to large than 200,000 years ago, whereas the Mauremys populations. The livada Valley islands themselves formed a continuous with its stream below Falatados is part of land mass until 21,500 years ago ( BRAm - the Natura 2000 area GR 4220031, that also mAH et al. 2010). For this reason there are includes the lagoon of kolibithra. close relationships in terms of their shared in conclusion, while there are still herpetofaunas. Stellagama has been vital populations of M. rivulata on Tinos, known to occur in the Cyclades since long habitats suitable for E. orbicularis were not (PiTTON DE TOuRNEFORT 1717: 373) but found. This species is not likely to occur on only BEuTlER & F RöR (1980) made the that island since it avoids inhabiting first reference to this agama on Tinos

______Figs. 1-4: Opposite page. Photographs nos. 1, 2 and 4 by the author. Fig. 1: Observed locations of Mauremys rivulata (VAlENCiENNES , 1833 ), Pelophylax kurtmuelleri (G AyDA , 1940) and Stellagama stellio stellio (liNNAEuS , 1758), on the island of Tinos, Cyclades islands (Greece). Fig. 2: The lagoon of kolibithra, the largest wetland in the northern Cyclades islands (Greece). Fig. 3: Groups of Mauremys rivulata (VAlENCiENNES , 1833 ), in a brook in the livada Valley, island of Tinos, Cyclades islands (Greece). Photograph by Peter Goop. Fig. 4: Stellagama stellio stellio (liNNAEuS , 1758), on a stone wall near the water retention basin of Tinos Town, island of Tinos, Cyclades islands (Greece). All_Short_Notes:SHORT_NOTE.qxd 12.02.2019 14:31 Seite 10

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NER , F. (1938a): Die Amphibien und Reptilien Grie- Anolis phyllorhinus , the only pro - chenlands.- Zoologica, Stuttgart; 35: 1-116. WERNER , boscid anole endemic to Brazil, inhabits F. (1938b): Ergebnisse der achten Forschungsreise nach Griechenland.- Sitzungsberichte der Akademie forested areas of central Amazonia at the der Wissenschaften in Wien, mathematisch-naturwis - southern Amazonas River ( ÁVilA -P iRES senschaftliche klasse, Wien; (Abt. 1) 147 (5-10): 151- 1995; RiBEiRO -J úNiOR 2015a), distributed 173. WWF GREECE (2014): Conservation of the island from the right bank of the madeira River to wetlands of Greece 2004-2013. Discovering the true value of Greek island wetlands. WWF Report march the left bank of the Tapajós River. This spe- 2014. Athinai, pp. 78. cies differs from the sympatric and morpho - kEy WORDS: Reptilia, Testudines: Geoemy- logically similar A. punctatus DAuDiN , didae: Mauremys rivulata ; : Sauria: Aga- 1802, besides the presence of the rostral midae: Stellagama stellio ; Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae: proboscis in males, by some meristic and Pellophylax kurtmuelleri ; population size, record local - ities, Tinos island, Cyclades, Greece morphometric characters and different size and color pattern of the gular dewlap of SuBmiTTED: may 26, 2018 males ( RODRiGuES et al. 2002). Despite the AuTHOR: mario F. BROGGi < mario.broggi@ adon.li > ‒ St. mamertenweg 35, 9495 Triesen, lengthy elapsed time since its description, Fürstentum liechtenstein. there remains scarce information on the nat - ural history, ecology and overall distribution range of this rarely observed ( RODRi- GuES et al. 2002; PRATES et al. 2015), rea - sons that left the conservation status of the New record and updated geographic species unevaluated by the iuCN Red list distribution of Anolis phyllorhinus of Threatened Species (iuCN 2018). Pri- myERS & C ARVAlHO , 1945 mary knowledge on the geographic range of A. phyllorhinus is based on one specimen from the type locality, in the lower madeira The Anolis (sensu lato) com - River, Ama zonas State ( myERS & CARVAlHO prises a highly diverse group of arboreal 1945), and one specimen for Jacareacanga, from tropical and subtropical Amer- in the left bank of the upper Tapajós River ica ( ÁVilA -P iRES 1995; NiCHOlSON 2002), (WilliAmS 1965). Almost 40 years later, with more than 400 known species ( uETZ & eight specimens, including the first known HOSEk 2018), including several recently de- female, were recorded in Aripuanã, mato scribed (e.g., VElASCO & HuRTADO -GOmES Grosso State ( RODRiGuES et al. 2002). in 2014; POE & RyAN 2017). inside the South this same state, another four specimens of American clade Anolis (Dactyloa ), a group this lizard were recorded during a faunal of species is characterized by the presence rescue in the left bank of the Teles Pires of a large rostral proboscis in males ( Wil - River, a tributary of the Tapajós River ( SãO - liAmS 1979). The overall understanding on PEDRO et al. 2009; R. N. FEiO , pers. comm.). causes and functions of such structure is still Aiming to improve this knowledge, here the incipient ( RODRiGuES et al. 2002), but recent authors present a new record for this lizard, studies indicate its use in social courtship, representing the 15th known vouchered spe- mating and agonistic interactions ( POE et al. cimen after 68 years of its description, being 2012; QuiROlA et al. 2017), as is known for the easternmost known locality of occur - other lizards, e.g., the madagascan Furcifer rence and first located in the right bank of rhinoceratus (GRAy , 1843) or the Sri lan- the Tapajós River, Pará State, Bra zil. kan Ceratophora tennentii GüNTHER , 1861. On 04 November 2013, one adult Three anole species share the possession of male (snout-vent length 81 mm) of A. phyl - a rostral proboscis: Anolis laevis COPE , lorhinus was recorded inside a pitfall trap 1876, A. phyllorhinus myERS & CARVAlHO , (04°52’ S, 56°26’ W; municipality of 1945 and A. proboscis , PETERS & ORCéS , Trairão; Fig. 1) as part of a long-term survey 1956, however, they do not form a mono - for amphibians and reptiles in the middle phyletic group, as recent phylogenetic Tapajós River region, Pará State, Brazil frameworks evidenced that this character (mORAES et al. 2016). This pitfall trap was evolved independently in these lineages located ca. 1.5 kilometers in a straight line (PRATES et al. 2015). to the Jamanxim River, one of the main trib -