#1604 · 🦎 reptiles

Greek Rock Lizard

🇳🇱 Griekse Berghagedis ·Hellenolacerta graeca

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Manuel Ruedi · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Katerina Kalogerini · CC BY 4.0
5. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Katerina Kalogerini · CC BY 4.0
7. Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, GR:© Valia Pavlou · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Peloponnese, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, GR:© Mario Lietz-Finkel · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Peloponnese, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, GR:© martind · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Peloponnese, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, GR:© Manuel Ruedi · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Greek rock lizard ( Hellenolacerta graeca ) is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. Endemic to Greece, its natural habitats are temperate forests, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rocky areas, and pastureland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 374iNaturalist 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.
374 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jacques von Bedriaga in 1886 (140 years ago).