#1827 · 🦎 reptiles
Peters' Lava Lizard
🇳🇱 Kielstaartleguaan ·Tropidurus hispidus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Pedro Ivo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Frederico Acaz Sonntag · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Bruno R. Möller · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Helio Lourencini · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Helio Lourencini · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Jacqueline de Oliveira Vieira · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © B. Phalan · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Luiz Alves Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Luiz Alves Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Tropidurus hispidus , Peters's lava lizard or neotropical lava lizard , is a species of lizard of the Tropiduridae family. It is found in Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
base stats
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.
- 3,618 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Baptist von Spix in 1825 (201 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Peters' Lava Lizard
- Nederlands
- Kielstaartleguaan
- scientific name
- Tropidurus hispidus
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Tropiduridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,618
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1825 by Johann Baptist von Spix
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Tropiduridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 114590, Wikidata Q755136, GBIF 5224852, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.