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Timon lepidus (Jeweled lizard)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The ocellated lizard, eyed lizard or jeweled lacerta in the pet trade (Timon lepidus) (syn. Lacerta lepida) is a species of wall lizard also known as the (Portuguese: sardão, Spanish: lagarto ocelado).
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Infraspecies

Timon lepidus ibericus
Timon lepidus lepidus
Timon lepidus oteroi

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  99 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  79 grams
Male Weight [1]  120 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  51.9 %
Female Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months
Gestation [1]  88 days
Litter Size [1]  13
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  17 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  6 inches (16 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Luberon Regional Nature Park V 406572 France  
Paul do Boquilobo Biosphere Reserve Nature Reserve IV 1352 Portugal  
Reserva de la Biosfera de Doñana Biosphere Reserve II 123801 Spain
Reserve Nationale de Camargue Biosphere Reserve 32232 France  

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Dixus capito[4]
Ephedra distachya (jointfir)[4]
Morica hybrida[4]
Trichogonia heringeri[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Francolinus francolinus (Black Francolin)1
Vulpes cana (Blanford's Fox)1

Predators

Circaetus gallicus (Short-toed Snake Eagle)[5]
Hieraaetus pennatus (Booted Eagle)[6]
Vipera latastei (Lataste’s Viper)[7]

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
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Meiri, 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
♦ 4Trophic ecology of the Ocellated Lizard Lacerta lepida in an arid zone of southern Spain: relationships with availability and daily activity of prey, José A. Hódarf, Francisca Campos and Benjamín A. Rosales, Journal of Arid Environments (1996) 33: 95–107
♦ 5Prey and prey-size selection by the short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus) during the breeding season in Granada (south-eastern Spain), José M. Gil, Juan M. Pleguezuelos, J. Zool., Lond. (2001) 255, 131-137
♦ 6FOOD OF THE BOOTED EAGLE (HIERAAETUS PENNATUS) IN CENTRAL SPAIN, José P. Veiga, RAPTOR RESEARCH VOL. 20 (3/4): 120-123
♦ 7Prey availability drives geographic dietary differences of a Mediterranean predator, the Lataste’s viper (Vipera latastei), Xavier Santos, Juan M. Pleguezuelos, José C. Brito, Gustavo A. Llorente, Xavier Parellada & Soumia Fahd, HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL 18: 16–22, 2008
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