#1727 · 🦎 reptiles

Clark's Spiny Lizard

Sceloporus clarkii

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Tom Kennedy · CC BY 4.0
2. © Yinpeng Zhang · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Francisco Farriols Sarabia · CC BY 4.0
4. © FRANCISCO MIGUEL FARRIOLS ESTRADA · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Peter Olsoy · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © John Sullivan · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Jerry Oldenettel · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Sceloporus clarkii , Clark's spiny lizard , is a species of lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. It is found in New Mexico and Arizona in the United States and Mexico.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,148iNaturalist 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.
7,148 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1852 (174 years ago).