#1645 · 🦎 reptiles
Brown Basilisk
🇳🇱 Gestreepte Basilisk ·Basiliscus vittatus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nick Tobler (Cowturtle) · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Miguel Romero · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Enrique Rosas Córdova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Kevin Meza · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Eridan Xharahi · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Zygy · CC0
- 7. © Cristian Olvera · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Nicholas Sly · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Cheryl Harleston López Espino · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. © Corey Lange · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The brown basilisk or striped basilisk ( Basiliscus vittatus ; in some areas referred to as "common basilisk") is one species of basilisk lizard. S. state of Florida as a feral species.
base stats
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.
- 19,937 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann in 1828 (198 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Brown Basilisk
- Nederlands
- Gestreepte Basilisk
- scientific name
- Basiliscus vittatus
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Corytophanidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 19,937
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1828 by Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Corytophanidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 33118, Wikidata Q2705820, GBIF 5221821, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.