#1702 · 🦎 reptiles

Blainville's Horned Lizard

Phrynosoma blainvillii

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
2. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
3. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
4. San Benito County, US-CA, US:© Daniel George · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. San Diego County, US-CA, US:© jspaulding · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. California, US:© eastbaybirding · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. San Diego County, US-CA, US:© Andrew Borcher · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. United States:© Valtierra · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. Monterey County, UCNRS, US-CA, US:© alyssaschaan · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. San Benito County, US-CA, US:© Michael Hawk · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The San Diego horned lizard or Blainville's horned lizard ( Phrynosoma blainvillii ) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard native to southern and central California in the United States and northern Baja California in Mexico.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,911iNaturalist 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.
8,911 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1839 (187 years ago).