#1683 · 🦎 reptiles

Graphic Spiny Lizard

Sceloporus grammicus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Bruno Valente · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Oscar Jesus · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Yabal Alfaro Castillo · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Omar Ramírez Icaza · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Getsemani SE. · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Carlos Galindo-Leal · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Berenice García · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Sceloporus grammicus is a species of lizard from Mexico and the southern United States. It is sometimes referred to as the mesquite lizard or graphic spiny lizard .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,506iNaturalist 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.
11,506 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann in 1828 (198 years ago).