#1767 · 🦎 reptiles
Blue-Green Smooth-throated Lizard
🇳🇱 Groene aardleguaan ·Liolaemus tenuis
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what is it?
Liolaemus tenuis , known as the jewel lizard , is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. Other names are slender lizard and thin lizard . It is endemic to Chile.
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.
- 5,574 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by André Marie Constant Duméril in 1837 (189 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Blue-Green Smooth-throated Lizard
- Nederlands
- Groene aardleguaan
- scientific name
- Liolaemus tenuis
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Liolaemidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,574
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1837 by André Marie Constant Duméril
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 39111, Wikidata Q797007, GBIF 2460411, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.