Hello Esculapio. As far as I see, you ordered renaming of File:Anguis fragilis 1.jpg. In my opinion this was very premature, as it could be both the true Anguis fragilis and (with lower probability) Anguis veronensis. The location Val Rosandra is near Trieste, exactly on the border to Slovenia. I took the photo on a road (an abandoned railway route) on Italian territory, but within a distance of a few meters it was already Slovenia. As far as I know, Anguis veronensis is not yet recorded from Slovenia nor from Croatia. (However, there are records of hybrids from north-western Slovenia and northern Friuli.) Anyway, the location is much closer to the verified records of Anguis fragilis s.str. in Slovenia and Croatia than to the nearest verified Italian location of Anguis veronensis near Forno di Zoldo in Veneto. Kozina, one of the verified Slovenian locations of true Anguis fragilis, is at a distance of less than five kilometers from my location in Val Rosandra. Gvoždík et al. (2013) in their paper moreover have mentioned that the true Anguis fragilis also occurs in north-eastern Italy. So, it is not totally impossible that Anguis veronensis or hybrids also will be found near Trieste, but it is much more likely that in this region only true Anguis fragilis exists. Please, read the paper of Gvoždík et al. (2013): I found this paper already some months ago, and learned it would be best not to change identification and name of the photo. I will order renaming the photo again. Regards --Franz Xaver (talk) 18:27, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
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Ti segnalo Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - September - Arthropods se vuoi partecipare. Inoltre se hai idea di che specie sia il ragno che ho caricato ieri (la seconda caricata, in fondo alla pagina: quello a cui manca una zampa, col corpo rossastro, ripreso su uno sfondo di cemento) fammelo sapere che metto un titolo migliore. In generale i fotografi profssionisti magri non sanno bene cosa fotografano, quindi chiunque voglia migliorare le descrizioni è il benvenuto.--Alexmar983 (talk) 20:21, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
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Can you add the border of South Sudan (which became independent in 2011) in File:Swahili area.gif?
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Hello.
Can you update this map, because it is used by numerous Wikipedia articles, and since this is a current map, the current borders must be reflected.
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Unfortunately, I don't have that expertise. The most I can do is just copy and paste from identical maps and maps with the same dimensions, and only color simple map. As the original (and still active) uploader can you please update it? Maphobbyist (talk) 12:45, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
Chondrilla nucula
Dear Esculapio,
I am coordinating the publication of a new textbook of zoology (in Italian) and I wonder if it is possible to insert your picture at the webpage:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chondrilla_nucula_Capo_Gallo_037.jpg
In the case, you will be credited for it.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Best regard
Loriano
Loriano Ballarin
Associate Professor of Zoology
Dept of Biology, University of Padova, Italy
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Hallo. Could you please designate the source of this image? Mithril (talk) 12:40, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
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