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<p> <em>Lacerta schreiberi </em>Bedriaga, 1878</p>

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  • Schreiber's green lizard

  • Lacerta schreiberi Bedriaga, 1878

  • Lacertidae

  • The Iberian Emerald Lizard or Schreiber's green lizard is a reptile with a robust appearance and long tail. It exhibits a general green colouration, with black dots, or brown with big dark spots, and a yellow belly. In the mating season its throat exhibits a blue colouration. It can measure up to 12,5 cm long counting its head and body.

  • Peneda-Gerês National Park

    Alvão Nature Park

    Serra da Estrela Nature Park

    Serra de S. Mamede Nature Park

    Sintra-Cascais Nature Park

    Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina Nature Park

  • Algarve

    Lisboa e Vale do Tejo

    Centro

    Norte

    Alentejo

  • Least Concern

  • Iberian Peninsula

  • TheIberian Emerald Lizard or Schreiber's green lizard inhabits relatively moist environments, from agricultural mountain valleys to low altitude bogs, in the margins or proximity of water courses with dense vegetable covering.

  • Spring

  • The Iberian Emerald Lizard or Schreiber's green lizard feeds on beetles, ants, flies, mosquitoes, spiders, other invertebrates and occasionally on wild fruits.

  • It is estimated that the Portuguese population of this species is in the tens of thousands of individuals.