#1681 · 🦎 reptiles

Greater Earless Lizard

🇳🇱 Dove leguaan ·Cophosaurus texanus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Yinpeng Zhang · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Patrick Dockens · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © David Renoult · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © paulswitzer · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © wayne05 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Brewster County, TX, USA:© jkopachena · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Tonto National Forest, Apache Junction, AZ, US:© monsoman · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Catalina Foothills, AZ, USA:© quiltedquetzal · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Tom Mays Park Access Rd, El Paso, TX 79930, USA:© quiltedquetzal · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The greater earless lizard ( Cophosaurus texanus ) is a species of earless lizard endemic to the southwestern United States.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,666iNaturalist 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.
11,666 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Franz Hermann Troschel in 1852 (174 years ago).