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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