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Southern Alligator Lizard

Elgaria multicarinata

The Southern Alligator Lizard is a fun little reptile that loves to bask in the sun. With its long body and cool scales, it can often be found in gardens or under rocks.

Lebensraum: Urban areas

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The Southern Alligator Lizard has a long, slender body with short legs and a long tail. Its overlapping, keeled scales are typically brown, grey, or olive, often with darker crossbands. A distinct fold of skin runs along each side of its body, and its belly is usually pale yellow.

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Southern Alligator Lizard
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Southern Alligator Lizard

Kategorie

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Despite their name, Southern Alligator Lizards are not related to alligators at all!

Some females can store sperm for months to fertilize eggs later, how cool is that?

These lizards can live in gardens, helping control pests like slugs and snails!

They can 'play dead' when threatened, lying still until danger passes, wow!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Escape Artist Tail

Southern Alligator Lizard can drop its wiggling tail to distract predators, which helps them make a quick getaway!

Fähigkeit

Expandable Body

Southern Alligator Lizard has a unique skin fold along its sides that helps them expand to eat larger meals or carry eggs.

Fähigkeit

Powerful Jaws

Southern Alligator Lizard has strong jaws that help them crush exoskeletons of insects and hold onto squirming prey.

Fähigkeit

Climbing Claws

Southern Alligator Lizard can climb well using sharp claws and scaly skin, which helps them scale trees and rocks for hunting.

Maße und Details

Länge
15-50 cm
Gewicht
0.01-0.1 kg
Lebenserwartung
5-10 Jahre
Top Speed
10 km/h
Gelegegröße
5-20
Brutzeit
30-90 Tage

Ernährung und Fütterung

These carnivorous lizards eat a variety of insects, spiders, and even small rodents or other lizards.

Hauptnahrung

  • crickets
  • grasshoppers
  • slugs
  • snails
  • spiders
  • beetles

Nahrungssuche

  • Ambush

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Gopher Snake

Pituophis catenifer

Snakes hunt these lizards for a meal.

hunts

Two-spotted Cricket

Gryllus bimaculatus

The lizard actively preys on many types of insects.

hunts

Garden Snail

Helix aspersa

A common garden pest that these lizards enjoy eating.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

If you see one, watch it from a distance and don't try to touch it.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das länge von Southern Alligator Lizard?

15-50 cm

Was ist der/die/das gewicht von Southern Alligator Lizard?

0.01-0.1 kg

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Southern Alligator Lizard?

5-10 Jahre

Was ist der/die/das top Speed von Southern Alligator Lizard?

10 km/h

Was frisst Southern Alligator Lizard?

These carnivorous lizards eat a variety of insects, spiders, and even small rodents or other lizards.

Wo findet man Southern Alligator Lizard normalerweise?

Urban areas

Wie jagt Southern Alligator Lizard?

Ambush

Was ist der/die/das gelegegröße von Southern Alligator Lizard?

5-20

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