#1593 · 🦎 reptiles

Meadow Lizard

🇳🇱 Weidehagedis ·Darevskia praticola

NTnear threatened 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © mihai_leu · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Cristina Florentina Alistar · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Ioana Mita · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © chris9900 · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Mircea Nita · CC BY 4.0
6. © Tom Kirschey · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Tom Kirschey · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Cristina Florentina Alistar · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © lugachev_vitaly · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Darevskia praticola , the meadow lizard , is a lizard species in the genus Darevskia . It is found in Georgia, Russia, Iran, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Turkey.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 661iNaturalist 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.
661 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1834 (192 years ago).