{"id":44716,"date":"2020-06-12T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T08:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madriu-perafita-claror.ad\/els-reptils\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:17:56","slug":"els-reptils","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.madriu-perafita-claror.ad\/en\/els-reptils\/","title":{"rendered":"Reptiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_single_image image=&#8221;38666&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #808080;\">THE REPTILES FAMILY (VERTEBRATES)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Six species of reptiles have been recorded in the valley: the rock lizard ( <em>Podarcis muralis<\/em> ), the viviparous lizard ( <em>Lacerta vivipara<\/em> ), the Pyrenean viper ( <em>Vipera aspis<\/em> ), the grass snake ( <em>Natrix natrix<\/em> ), the green-and-yellow snake ( <em>Hierophis<\/em> <em>viridiflavus<\/em> ), and the Aesculapian snake ( <em>Zamenis longissimus<\/em> ).<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 175px;\" width=\"1025\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\" width=\"205\">CLASS<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\" width=\"205\">ORDER<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\" width=\"205\">FAMILY<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\" width=\"205\">SCIENTIFIC NAME<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\" width=\"205\">COMMON NAME<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 150px;\" rowspan=\"6\">3. Reptiles<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 150px;\" rowspan=\"6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Escatosos\">Scaly<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;\" rowspan=\"3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Col%C3%BAbrids\">Colubridae<\/a> (colubrids)<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serp_verda_i_groga\">Hierophis viridiflavus<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\">Green-and-yellow snake \u263b<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serp_de_collaret\">Snakebite<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\">Collared snake \u263b\u263b<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serp_d%27Esculapi\">Zamenis longissimus<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\">Aesculapian Snake \u2207 \u263b\u263b\u263b<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 50px;\" rowspan=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lac%C3%A8rtids\">Lacertidae<\/a> (lizards)<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sargantana_viv%C3%ADpara\">Viviparous lizard<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\">Viviparous lizard \u2207 \u263b\u263b<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sargantana_roquera\">Podarcis muralis<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\">Rock lizard \u2207 \u263b<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vip%C3%A8rids\">Viperidae<\/a> (viper family)<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Escur%C3%A7%C3%B3_pirinenc\">Vipera aspis<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 25px;\">Pyrenean viper \u263b<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 466px;\" width=\"1151\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"288\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Animal species classified according to the IUCN (<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">International Union for Conservation of Nature) according to the degree<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">of threat ( <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bopa.ad\/bopa\/025027\/Pagines\/7F35A.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BOPA 12\/06\/13<\/a> ):<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n \u263b <span style=\"color: #f8f8f8;\">\u263b\u263b<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Protected species (62.6%)<\/span><br \/>\n \u263b\u263b <span style=\"color: #f8f8f8;\">\u263b<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Protected and threatened species (14.5%)<\/span><br \/>\n \u263b\u263b\u263b <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Protected and endangered species (6.9%)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">( <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Vertebrates: protected: 84% and threatened or endangered: 21.4%<\/span> )<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">( <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Butterflies: protected: 94.2% and threatened or endangered: 29.1%<\/span> )<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25ac<\/p>\n<p>\u2295<span style=\"color: #f8f8f8;\">\u2295\u2295\u2295<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Huntable species, ( <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bopa.ad\/bopa\/027067\/Pagines\/GR20150930_12_16_12.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regulations implementing the Hunting Law<\/a> )  <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #f8f8f8;\">\u2295\u2295\u2295\u2295<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">fishable ( <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bopa.ad\/bopa\/015029\/Pagines\/2D212.aspx\" target=\"\"_blank<sup><\/sup>&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener noreferrer&#8221;>Fishing Regulations<\/a> )<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #f8f8f8;\">\u2295\u2295\u2295\u2295<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">and others (e.g. the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bopa.ad\/bopa\/019048\/Pagines\/4C2DA.aspx\" target=\"\"_blank<sup><\/sup>&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener noreferrer&#8221;>Chamois Management Plan of the Principality of Andorra<\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2192<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrimoninatural.ad\/fauna\/gestio-de-la-caca\/la-practica-de-la-caca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.patrimoninatural.ad<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facip.com\/info-llicencies#especies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facip.com<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"288\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Species listed in Annex II of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bopa.ad\/bopa\/012041\/Pagines\/1E14E.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bern Convention<\/a> (strictly protected species whose habitat is also protected by prohibiting the intentional deterioration or destruction of breeding sites or their resting areas):<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n \u2207 <span style=\"color: #f8f8f8;\">\u2207\u2207\u2207<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Strictly protected species (51.1%)<\/span><br \/>\n \u2207\u2207 <span style=\"color: #f8f8f8;\">\u2207\u2207<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Strictly protected <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endemisme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endemic<\/a> species<\/span><br \/>\n\u2207\u2207\u2207 <span style=\"color: #f8f8f8;\">\u2207<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Strictly protected species, studied and conserved by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn-andorra.org\/websadn\/pact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PACT<\/a> (Action Plan for the Conservation of the Trencal\u00f2s), which was created in 1999 by the Andorran Government and the Association for the Defense of Nature (ADN)<\/span><br \/>\n\u2207\u2207\u2207\u2207  <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Strictly protected species of community interest, whose presence was demonstrated in 2011 thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.bomosa.ad\/node\/47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FELIS project<\/a> (agreement between the BOMOSA Philanthropic Association and the Government of Andorra)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">[\u00b9] = link in Spanish; [\u00b2] = link in French<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sources<\/span> :<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2022<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\">&#8220;Entomological inventory of the Vall\u00e9e du Madriu-Perafita-Claror (Andorra) 2006<br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2022<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\">&#8220;Update of data collected at BUTTERFLY MONITORING SCHEME stations in ANDORRA (BMSAnd)&#8221; CENMA 2014. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2022<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\">CENMA &#8211; Andorran Snow and Mountain Studies Center<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2022<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\">Links and photos: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.wikipedia.org<\/a> .<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_single_image image=&#8221;38666&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] THE REPTILES FAMILY (VERTEBRATES) [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Six species of reptiles have been recorded in the valley: the rock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44716","page","type-page","status-publish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madriu-perafita-claror.ad\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madriu-perafita-claror.ad\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madriu-perafita-claror.ad\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madriu-perafita-claror.ad\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madriu-perafita-claror.ad\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44716"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.madriu-perafita-claror.ad\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44851,"href":"https:\/\/www.madriu-perafita-claror.ad\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44716\/revisions\/44851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madriu-perafita-claror.ad\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}