#1724 · 🦎 reptiles

Yarrow's Spiny Lizard

Sceloporus jarrovii

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Mike Andersen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Gustavo Sánchez Benítez · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © ManuelRdz · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Casey Weissburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Chihuahua, MX:© Alejandro Gómez Nísino · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. Santa Cruz County, AZ, USA:© jmbearce · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Forest Service Road 42A, San Simon, AZ, US:© Chris Grinter · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Slavin Gulch Trail, Cochise, AZ, US:© k_king_102 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Sceloporus jarrovii , commonly known as the Yarrow's spiny lizard , is a species of phrynosomatid lizard native to the Arizona, United States and northern Mexico.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,232iNaturalist 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.
7,232 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1875 (151 years ago).