List of amphibians and reptiles of Cantabria

Toad of small size, bulky appearance and large head. The skin is granular with small warts grouped on the sides. Its coloration varies from gray to brown with green, reddish and black spots not very marked; the ventral area is light. Males carry eggs on their backs.

Body covered with wart-like protuberances. The color of its skin varies between a wide range of brownish, grayish and greenish tones. Its eyes are orange. It presents a marked sexual dimorphism, females are much larger than males.

Of robust appearance and large hind legs, it is distinguished from the common toad by a yellow stripe along the column. They have a strange gait.

Easily recognizable by their intense bright green color. With a broad head, large eyes and slender limbs adapted to jumping, they have lines ranging from brown to black drawn along the sides.

It has elongated warts on the back, often in rows along the body.

Mountain frog with a reddish-brown color. Found in streams and pools of cold water on rocky substrate and among riparian vegetation.

Despite its name, its coloration can vary between reddish-brown, ochre and greenish tones. It lives on land and returns to the water for shelter and reproduction.

One of the smallest aurodeles in Europe. The male has a unique coloring during the mating season.

It is distinguished from all other species of Iberian aurodeles by the size of its tail, which exceeds that of the rest of the body. It is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.

The smallest of the Iberian newts. Brownish back with spots, white throat and yellow belly. Its common name is due to the interdigital membranes of the hind legs.

NV: (in Spanish) Vicaruela, bicaruelu, vacariza, escurpión, mamavacas.

Quite common species with characteristic yellow spots on a black background. Thick body and relatively short tail, without dorsal or caudal crest.

Its green coloration distinguishes it from other European newts. During the breeding season, the green becomes more vivid and the male acquires a large dorsal crest dotted with white, black and orange vertical stripes.

They have fins with two claws, large round head with a very thick beak. The carapace is smooth in adults and dark brown to orange-yellow in color. In juveniles it is dark brown and rougher. The back is a cream color.

L: 61-91 cm

Turtle with a greenish-gray carapace and a greenish-yellow and white breastplate. Like other sea turtles, it has a corneous beak.

It is the largest of all turtles. Its carapace, smooth and dark, is formed by a smooth connective tissue delimited by a soft curve that gives a semi-cylindrical appearance to the animal. It has seven ridges running from head to tail. Front flippers are much longer than in all other turtles. Hook-shaped beak.

Carapace flattened, with the vertebral keel slightly prominent, green, brown or brown. Yellow plastron, sometimes with black spots. It has orange or reddish lines on the neck.

Green or brownish carapace and light yellow plastron. They have characteristic red or yellow spots at the back of the eyes. Females are slightly larger than males.

NV: (in Spanish) Eslabón, enano, nánago, enánago, inano, ánago, anagón.

NV: (in Spanish) Eslabón, enano, nánago, enánago, inano, ánago, anagón.

NV: (in Spanish, common to all lizards) Legarto/u, regartezón.

It is the largest Iberian lizard. Its layer is yellowish green in males and brownish in females, in both mottled in black. On the sides they have blue ocelli that may or may not be framed in black. Their underside is whitish. Juveniles are usually greenish with white ocelli on the back and sides.

Short and wide head, the tail is twice as long as the body and its belly is yellowish. Males are green vermiculated in black, with age the black decreases. During estrus, their head and throat turn blue. Females have a brownish or greenish coloration.

Coat yellowish green, bluish green or brownish green with black speckles. Males have a blue throat and females and juveniles have 2 dark longitudinal stripes.

NV: (in Spanish, common to all lizards) Lagartesa, ligartesa, lagarteza, ligaterna, legaterna, regarteza.

They have a long tail, between 1.1 and 2.5 times the length of the body. They are brownish or grayish in color with dark and light longitudinal stripes. Juveniles are usually completely blackish.

Color greenish-brown very variable, with yellowish chest and occasionally reddish head and back. It has spots in males and lateral stripes in females, among which stand out two thick and dark ones that may be outlined by other thinner yellowish ones.

A slender lizard with a brownish or grayish back and whitish belly. It has a line of dots in the center of the back and a wide, dark longitudinal stripe on the sides, flanked by two light stripes that pass above and below the eyes. Its pupils are reddish.

Coloration of the back is light brown, coppery brown or olive, with two whitish or yellowish lines. Eyelids bluish on each side of the body, decreasing in size towards the back. In spring, adult males have orange and yellow sides of the head and throat, and the sides with abundant black coloration forming parallel vertical series alternating with yellow coloration.

The back, legs and tail have prominent conical bumps. The head is large and broad, triangular and has large eyes with vertical pupil without eyelids. Its coloration can vary from brown to dark gray, with spots; the belly is whitish. It has five toes on each leg, with lateral and lower lamellar protuberances that provide some grip for climbing and moving along vertical surfaces.

A large, robust gecko with a gray dorsum with dark, inconspicuous transverse stripes followed by light spots and a whitish or yellowish underside. Its iris is yellowish or golden brown.

NV: (in Spanish) Enánago, nánago/u,^[41] enanu, inanu, ánago, anagón, alamón, eslabón, cedajón, salayón, babón, gamón.

NV: (In Spanish, common to all the family) Culiebra, culiebru.

The color of the back varies from reddish-brown to gray, with irregular dark spots. The belly is blackish, grayish or reddish-brown in a more or less uniform pattern. A dark mask runs from the nostrils and lower edge of the eye to the neck.

It has a small and sunken head and a relatively short tail. Its coloration varies between brown, ocher, gray, pink and reddish tones. It has two dark spots on the parietals extending backwards, its back is covered with dark transverse spots, sometimes with reddish spots on the sides.

Coloration very varied, generally olive or yellowish brown, although it can also be reddish. It has along the mid-dorsal line a row of spots that in some specimens may come together to form a zigzag line. It is characterized by showing very carinate scales on the back.

NV: (in Spanish) Culebra collarina, serpiente de los prados.^[41]

It has a thick body, rounded head and eyes with round pupils. The color is very variable, most commonly brown or dark green.

Head is elongated and narrow. Brownish, greenish or grayish coloration on the back, with whitish specks on the sides. Yellow underside as well as the sides of the neck.

Relatively short tail. Head broad, triangular and distinct from the neck. Body scales grayish or yellowish, golden or coppery, with black or greenish spots with black border, in apparent zigzag on the back.

Large head and flattened or slightly raised muzzle. Small tail (10-15% of the total). Notable individual and geographic variation in color pattern; the background is usually light brown but its pattern may be in a rosary pattern, zig-zag, discontinuous spots or even bilinear.