#1605 · 🦎 reptiles

Sicilian Wall Lizard

🇳🇱 Siciliaanse Hagedis ·Podarcis waglerianus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Alex Ville · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. Trapani, Sicily, IT:© Livio Rey · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. Sicily, IT:© Kerstin Reifenrath · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Trapani, Sicily, IT:© Gabriele La Grasta · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © cesc0 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Sicily, IT:© sarachiarello · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Trapani, Sicily, IT:© Marco Pecoraro · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Trapani, Sicily, IT:© salvoincrapera · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Sicily, IT:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. Trapani, Sicily, IT:© Marco Pecoraro · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Sicilian wall lizard ( Podarcis waglerianus ) is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. Endemic to Italy, it occurs in Sicily and the Aegadian Islands.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 334iNaturalist 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.
334 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel in 1868 (158 years ago).