Lygodactylus fritzi – P.-S. Gehring

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Lygodactylus fritzi, photo by P.-S. Gehring

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    Diane Kehoe

    Thank you for reminding us all to ‘look closer’ as it is far too easy for these tiny species to either get overlooked completely or to get ‘lumped together’ under one name because we just thought we were seeing a ‘natural variation’ within one or possibly two species.
    Years ago I was looking at the tiny salamanders that live in the wooded hills of the Fraser Valley close to the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They were extremely hard to find as they really only appeared on the wettest nights of the Spring, a time when one very tiny wet salamander starts to look like every other one you have ever seen as they venture out on the wet leaves and mosses close to tiny mountain streams, pools, and puddles. We seldom found ‘anything new’ but sometimes I suspect it was because our boots were full of water and we couldn’t see through our glasses for the rain and mist that was constantly falling – or ‘hanging in the air’.
    Good work!