#1728 · 🦎 reptiles

Tenerife Lizard

🇳🇱 Canarische Hagedis ·Gallotia galloti

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
2. © Claudia Fernández Bagan · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © bscrl · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain:© Néstor Negrín · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. Universidad de La Laguna - Campus de Anchieta, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES:© diegopsauma · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Teide:© Maksymilian Wojtkiewicz · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España:© David Barros Cardona · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain:© Javier Sánchez Álvarez · CC BY 4.0
9. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain:© Javier Sánchez Álvarez · CC BY 4.0
10. Costa Adeje, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spanyolország:© Renata Kopena · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Gallotia galloti ( Gallot's lizard , Tenerife lizard , or Western Canaries lizard ) is a species of lacertid (wall lizard) in the genus Gallotia . The species is found on the Canary Islands of Tenerife and La Palma.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,138iNaturalist 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.
7,138 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Paul Louis Oudart in 1839 (187 years ago).