#1747 · 🦎 reptiles

Middle American Ameiva

Holcosus festivus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © JeffreyGammon · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Will Flaxington · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Merav Vonshak · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Eric van den Berghe · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Simon Tonge · CC0
6. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. La Fortuna, Alajuela Province, San Carlos, Costa Rica:© Alex Yenne · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Limón Province, Guapiles, Costa Rica:© Annabelle Watts · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Limón Province, Punta Manzanillo, Costa Rica:© anasacuta · CC BY 4.0
10. El Porvenir, Atlántida, Honduras:© Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,297iNaturalist 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.
6,297 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein in 1856 (170 years ago).