Granite Spiny Lizard

base stats

• NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
• worldwide 7,030iNaturalist 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.
• 🌍7,030 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
• 📜Scientifically named by Leonhard Hess Stejneger in 1893 (133 years ago).

fact sheet

English

Granite Spiny Lizard

Nederlands

Granite spiny lizard

scientific name

Sceloporus orcutti

class

Reptilia

order

Squamata

family

Phrynosomatidae

IUCN Red List

LC · least concern

sightings in NL

0

sightings worldwide

7,030

GBIF records in NL

0

weight

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length

—

lifespan

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named

1893 by Leonhard Hess Stejneger

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.