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Lacerta bilineata (Western Green Lizard)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The western green lizard (Lacerta bilineata) is a wall lizard of the Lacertidae family.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  24 grams
Female Weight [1]  26 grams
Gestation [1]  56 days
Litter Size [1]  9
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.937 inches (10 cm)
Speed [3]  6.04 MPH (2.7 m/s)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No

Predators

Hierophis viridiflavus (Green Whip Snake, Western Whip Snake, Dark Green Snake)[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
3Variation in speed, gait characteristics and microhabitat use in lacertid lizards, Bieke Vanhooydonck, Raoul Van Damme and Peter Aerts, The Journal of Experimental Biology 205, 1037–1046 (2002)
4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0