#1540 · 🦎 reptiles
Desert Collared Lizard
🇳🇱 Great Basin collared lizard ·Crotaphytus bicinctores
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © J. N. Stuart · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Joe Decruyenaere · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Joe Decruyenaere · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Bryan Hamilton · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © ap2il · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Tim Shortell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Oregon, US:© herper47 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Idaho, US:© Emma Jaworski · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Humboldt County, NV, USA:© Marshal Hedin · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 10. Zzyzx Rd, California, USA:© Tom Mills · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Great Basin collared lizard ( Crotaphytus bicinctores ), also known commonly as the desert collared lizard or the Mojave black-collared lizard , is a species of lizard in the family Crotaphytidae. The species is endemic to the Western United States. It is very similar to the common collared lizard, Crotaphytus collaris , in shape and size, but it lacks the bright extravagant colors. Males can be brown to orange and some red or pink on the belly. Females are...
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.
- 3,757 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Wilmer W. Tanner in 1972 (54 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Desert Collared Lizard
- Nederlands
- Great Basin collared lizard
- scientific name
- Crotaphytus bicinctores
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Crotaphytidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1
- sightings worldwide
- 3,757
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1972 by Wilmer W. Tanner
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Crotaphytidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 62796, Wikidata Q640011, GBIF 2470618, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.