#1592 · 🦎 reptiles

Bedriaga's Rock Lizard

🇳🇱 Tyrrheense Berghagedis ·Archaeolacerta bedriagae

NTnear threatened 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

what is it?

Bedriaga's rock lizard , Archaeolacerta bedriagae , is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is monotypic within the genus Archaeolacerta . It is only found on the islands Corsica ( A. b. bedriagae ) and Sardinia ( A. b. sardus ). The name Lacerta bedriagae is also used.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 672iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

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.
672 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Lorenzo Camerano in 1885 (141 years ago).