#1628 · 🦎 reptiles

Eastern Fence Lizard

🇳🇱 Haagleguaan ·Sceloporus undulatus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Scot Magnotta · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY 4.0
3. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY 4.0
4. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY 4.0
5. © Matt Muir · CC BY 4.0
6. © Royal Tyler · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY 4.0
8. © Charles (Chuck) Peterson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The eastern fence lizard ( Sceloporus undulatus ) is a medium-sized species of lizard found along forest edges, rock piles, and rotting logs or stumps in the eastern United States. It is sometimes referred to as the prairie lizard , fence swift , gray lizard , northern fence lizard or pine lizard . It is also referred to colloquially as the horn-billed lizard.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 31,948iNaturalist 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.
31,948 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by François Marie Daudin in 1801 (225 years ago).