#1699 · 🦎 reptiles

Crevice Swift

Sceloporus torquatus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Leopoldo Islas Flores · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Carlos Galindo-Leal · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © César Hernández Hernández · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Scott Loarie · CC0
6. Arteaga, Coah., México:© sarionions · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Mexiko-Stadt, Hauptstadtdistrikt, Mexiko:© Georgia Born-Schmidt · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo Leon, Mexico:© Ignacio A. Rodríguez · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. Manantiales del Curutarán, 59835 Jacona de Plancarte, Mich., México:© Ricardo Arredondo T. · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Laguna de Arriba, Zac., México:© mayaritza · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Sceloporus torquatus , the crevice swift , is a species of lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,383iNaturalist 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.
9,383 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann in 1828 (198 years ago).