#1580 · 🦎 reptiles
Southwest Iberian Worm Lizard
🇳🇱 Moorse Wormhagedis ·Blanus cinereus
📍 Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisboa, Lisboa, PT
📍 Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisboa, Lisboa, PT
📍 8700 Quelfes, Portugal
📍 Cádiz, España
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Luís Lourenço · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Kids @ Nature · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Axel Gosseries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Ingmar van der Brugge · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © J. Gállego · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © mjdp · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisboa, Lisboa, PT:© Kids @ Nature · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisboa, Lisboa, PT:© Kids @ Nature · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 8700 Quelfes, Portugal:© Associação Vita Nativa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Cádiz, España:© b3ugaz · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Iberian worm lizard or European worm lizard ( Blanus cinereus ) is a species of reptile in the family Blanidae (worm lizards) of the suborder Amphisbaenidae. There are 130 species of amphisbaenians, most found in Spain, Africa, South Africa, and the Caribbean islands. The Iberian worm lizard is locally known as cobra-cega (Portuguese), culebrilla ciega (Spanish), and colobreta cega (Catalan), all meaning "blind snake". Recent studies into the mitochondrial and nuclear genomic data of 47 isolated B....
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.
- 897 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Domenico Vandelli in 1797 (229 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Southwest Iberian Worm Lizard
- Nederlands
- Moorse Wormhagedis
- scientific name
- Blanus cinereus
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Blanidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 783
- sightings worldwide
- 897
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1797 by Domenico Vandelli
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Blanidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 73702, Wikidata Q200664, GBIF 2473222, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.