Flora and aquatic fauna
SUBBASIN “Río Grande”
Vegetation of river banks :
Reedbeds that appear in the boundaries of the gardens and in the edge of creeks.
Vegetation of river banks:
Brambles in boundaries of plantations and edges of creeks.
Vegetation of river banks :
Reedbeds in the bed of the rivers and creeks.
Vegetation of river banks :
Tarajales in the dry beds and gravel beds of the Río Grande.
Willows, shrubs that develop in some tributaries with less temporary waters.
Aquatic fauna: Fish
Common barbel (Luciobarbus sclateri)
Boga (Pseudochondrostoma
Willkommi)
AMPHIBIANS
Common salamander (Salamandra salamandra)
Southern little “pintojo” toad (Discoglossus jeanneae).
AMPHIBIANS
Spurs toad (Pelobates cultripes)
Southern little frog (Hyla meridionalis)
REPTILES
Leprous tortoise
(Mauremys leprosa)
REPTILES
Viperish snake (Natrix maura)
Snake of necklace (Natrix natrix)
BIRDS
Fishing eagle (Pandion haliaetus)
Lake eaglet (Circus aeruginosus)
BIRDS: Royal Duck(Anas platyrhynchos)
The male is the most colouring
Matching: Male was giving pecks in love in the head of his dear one, whereas she seemed on the verge of suffocating.
BIRDS
Big riverwalker (Tringa ochropus).
BIRDS
European lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
BIRDS
Stork (Himantopus himantopus) with his nestling.
BIRDS
Black stork (Ciconia nigra)
Common Fleming(Phoenicopterus ruber)
Common spatula (Platalea leucorodia)
BIRDS
Martin fisherman(Alcedo atthis)
BIRDS
Imperial heron (Ardea
purpurea) in flight.
BIRDS
Common heron (Egretta garzetta)
BIRDS
Crabber little egret (Ardeola ralloides)
MAMMALS
Buzzard bat (Myotis daubentonii)
Water rat (Arvicola sapidus)
MAMMALS
Shovel otter (Lutra lutra)
Dragonflies
Between the groups that live in Río Grande it is necessary to highlight the dragonflies.
In the area there have been detected a total of 21 dragonflies’ species.
Dragonflies
“Xygastra curtisii” stands out here, species catalogued on the verge of extinction in “the Red Book of the invertebrates of Andalusia”.
Dragonflies
Oxygastra curtisii, (male)
Dragonflies
Zygonyx torrida, species listed as Vulnerable (“the Red Book of the invertebrates of Andalusia”.).
FINDING OF A VERY RARE AQUATIC VERY RARE MACROINVERTEBRATE IN ALPUJATA's SAW (COÍN, MALAGA)
They could not imagine what they have found: four larvas of the family of the "nevrórtidos", a group belonging to the neurópteros, the well-known Lion ants.
Without almost any change during the last million years, the "nevrórtidos" are considered to be authentic "living fossils”
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