#1817 · 🦎 reptiles

Common Puerto Rican Ameiva

Pholidoscelis exsul

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Steven Severinghaus · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Wade Wilson · CC BY 4.0
3. © John Sullivan · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Mata De Plátano, Luquillo, Puerto Rico:© no rights reserved · CC0
5. CHH5+P2Q, Spanish Town, British Virgin Islands:© juulsgaard · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Puerto Rico, Loíza, PR, US:© birdzilla · CC BY 4.0
7. 7RR2+WM8, Añasco, 00610, Puerto Rico:© Alexis Vega · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Sagrado Corazón / Monteflores, San Juan, Puerto Rico:© José Vázquez · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Puerto Rico, El Combate, Puerto Rico, US:© Alec Ferguson · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
10. FC23+X59 Bosque Estatal de Cambalache, 00652, Puerto Rico:© Sarah Wilson · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The common Puerto Rican ameiva or Puerto Rican ground lizard ( Pholidoscelis exsul ) is a species of lizard in the whiptail family.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,880iNaturalist 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.
3,880 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1862 (164 years ago).