#1694 · 🦎 reptiles

Common Chuckwalla

🇳🇱 Gewone chuckwalla ·Sauromalus ater

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Bryan Maltais · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © brandon_dietrich · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Geir K. Edland · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Alex Slavenko · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Tom Benson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Geir K. Edland · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © California Academy of Sciences · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Sauromalus ater ( common chuckwalla ) is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. It inhabits the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its range extends from eastern California, Utah, and Nevada south to Baja California and Sonora.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,259iNaturalist 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.
10,259 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Auguste Duméril in 1856 (170 years ago).