#1828 · 🦎 reptiles

Japanese Grass Lizard

Takydromus tachydromoides

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

Takydromus tachydromoides , the Japanese grass lizard , is a wall lizard species of the genus Takydromus . It is found in Japan. Its Japanese name is 'kanahebi' (カナヘビ). 'Hebi' means 'snake' in Japanese, although this lizard is not a snake. There are three lizards found in the four main islands of Japan. The other two are the Japanese gekko (also, Schlegel's Japanese gekko, Gekko japonicus ), and the Japanese five-lined skink ( Eumeces latiscutatus , also Plestiodon latiscutatus ; this skink shows...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,615iNaturalist 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.
3,615 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hermann Schlegel in 1838 (188 years ago).