#1591 · 🦎 reptiles

Cretan Wall Lizard

🇳🇱 Kretenzische Muurhagedis ·Podarcis cretensis

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Vincent Rufray · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Frank Sengpiel · CC BY 4.0
3. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Guillaume Labeyrie · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Tassos Sakoulis · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Rohit Chakravarty · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Podarcis cretensis , the Cretan wall lizard , is a species of lacertid lizard endemic to Crete (including its satellite islands).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 694iNaturalist 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.
694 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Otto von Wettstein in 1952 (74 years ago).