#1603 · 🦎 reptiles

Greek Slowworm

🇳🇱 Griekse Hazelworm ·Anguis graeca

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Konstantinos Kalaentzis · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Ryan van Huyssteen · CC BY 4.0
3. © milan kořínek · CC BY 4.0
4. Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, GR:© klausweinstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. West Greece, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, GR:© Ryan van Huyssteen · CC BY 4.0
6. Peloponnese, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, GR:© Alexandre Roux · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Parnassos, Parnassos, Phocis, GR:© GandG · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Corfu:© Milo · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Λιτόχωρο, Ελλάδα:© georgepap · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. West Greece, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, GR:© Martin Geiger · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Anguis graeca , the Greek slow worm , is a species of lizard in the family Anguidae found in Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia. It engages in death feigning behavior when threatened.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 380iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
380 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jacques von Bedriaga in 1881 (145 years ago).