Ocellated lizard

Ocellated lizard
Male
Female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Lacertidae
Genus: Timon
Species:
T. lepidus
Binomial name
Timon lepidus
(Daudin, 1802)
Subspecies

T. l. ibericus (López-Seoane, 1884)
T. l. lepidus (Daudin, 1802)
T. l. oteroi (Castroviejo & Mateo, 1998)

Synonyms[2]
  • Lacerta lepida
    Daudin, 1802
  • Lacerta ocellata
    Daudin, 1802
  • Lacerta ocellata
    — A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839
  • Lacerta lepida
    — Bischoff et al., 1984
  • Timon lepidus
    — Mayer & Bischoff, 1996

The ocellated lizard or jewelled lizard (Timon lepidus) is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae (wall lizards). The species is endemic to southwestern Europe.

Several Ocellated lizards

Common names

Additional common names for T. lepidus include eyed lizard, and jeweled lacerta (in the pet trade).

Description

Timon lepidus is one of the largest members of its family. The adult is 30 to 60 cm (0.98 to 1.97 ft) in total length (including tail) and may reach up to 90 cm (3.0 ft), weighing more than 0.5 kg (1.1 lb).[3] About two-thirds of its length is tail. Newly hatched young are 4 to 5 cm (1.5 to 2 in) long, excluding tail.

This is a robust lizard with a serrated collar. The male has a characteristic broad head. It has thick, strong legs, with long, curved claws. The dorsal background colour is usually green, but sometimes grey or brownish, especially on the head and tail. This is overlaid with black stippling that may form a bold pattern of interconnected rosettes. The underside is yellowish or greenish with both the male and female sporting bright blue spots along the flanks, though the male is typically brighter in colour than the female. Young are green, grey, or brown, with yellowish or white, often black-edged, spots all over.

Male and female ocellated lizard, Timon lepidus, courting.

Geographic range

Timon lepidus is native to southwestern Europe. It is found throughout the Iberian peninsula (Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar), and is patchily distributed in southern France and extreme northwestern Italy. It is also found in northwest Tunisia, within the forests of Ain Soltane and El Feija in Ghardimaou, Jendouba. The range for each subspecies is:

  • Timon lepidus ibericus - northwestern Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)
  • Timon lepidus lepidus
  • Timon lepidus oteroi

Ecology

Habitat in Portugal

Timon lepidus is found in various wild and cultivated habitats from sea level up to 2,100 m (6,900 ft) in southern Spain. It is rare at higher altitudes. It prefers dry, bushy areas, such as open woodland and scrub, old olive groves and vineyards, and is sometimes found on more open, rocky or sandy areas. It can occasionally be seen basking on roadsides. The lizard usually stays on the ground, but climbs well on rocks and in trees. It can dig holes and sometimes uses abandoned rabbit burrows.

Diet

Timon lepidus feeds mainly on large insects, especially beetles, spiders, and snails, and also robs birds’ nests for eggs and nestlings and occasionally takes reptiles (other lizards and small snakes), frogs, and small mammals.[4][5] It also eats fruit (such as berries) and other plant matter, especially in dry areas.[6]

Reproduction

Breeding in T. lepidus occurs in late spring or early summer. Males are territorial in spring and fight in the breeding season. The female lays up to 22 eggs in June and July about three months after mating, hiding them under stones and logs or in leaf litter or in loose damp soil. It tends to lay fewer, larger eggs in dry areas. The eggs hatch in eight to 14 weeks. The lizard is sexually mature at two years of age.

Conservation

As of 2024, Timon lepidus is listed as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1] As of 2011 the species has been under protection in Spain; capture and trade is forbidden.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Bowles, P. (2024). "Timon lepidus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024: e.T218293375A137858480. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  2. ^ Species Timon lepidus at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ "Biotropics - Timon lepidus (DAUDIN, 1802) - Ocellated Lizard; housing, feeding, breeding etc". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
  4. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Jeweled Lacerta, The Best Pet Lizard?". YouTube.
  5. ^ Clive. (2022, May 9). Ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus (Lacerta lepida)) Lagarto ocelado. Wildside Holidays - Walking and Wildlife Holidays in Spain. https://wildsideholidays.co.uk/ocellated-lizard-timon-lepidus-ibericuslacerta-lepida-lagarto-ocelado/
  6. ^ Clive. (2022, May 9). Ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus (Lacerta lepida)) Lagarto ocelado. Wildside Holidays - Walking and Wildlife Holidays in Spain. https://wildsideholidays.co.uk/ocellated-lizard-timon-lepidus-ibericuslacerta-lepida-lagarto-ocelado/
  7. ^ Real Decreto 139/2011, de 4 de febrero, para el desarrollo del Listado de Especies Silvestres en Régimen de Protección Especial y del Catálogo Español de Especies Amenazadas. (in Spanish).
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Further reading

  • Arnold EN, Burton JA (1978). A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe. (Illustrated by D.W. Ovenden). London: Collins. 272 pp. + Plates 1-40. ISBN 0-00-219318-3. (Lacerta lepida, pp. 130-131 + Plates 20, 22 + Map 65).
  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Lacerta ocellata, pp. 12-13).
  • Daudin FM (1802). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Reptiles; Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon; et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Tome troisième [Volume 3]. Paris: F. Dufart. 452 pp. (Lacerta lepida, new species, p. 204). (in French and Latin).
  • Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1839). Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième [Volume 5]. Paris: Roret. viii + 854 pp. (Lacerta ocellata, pp. 218-225). (in French).
  • Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Lacerta lepida, p. 300).
  • Mayer, Werner; Bischoff, Wolfgang (1996). "Beiträge zur taxonomischen Revision der Gattung Lacerta (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Tiel 1: Zootoca, Omanosaura, Timon und Teira als eigenständige Gattungen [Contributions to the taxonomic revision of the genus Lacerta (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Part 1: Zootoca, Omanosaura, Timon and Teira as full genera]". Salamandra 32 (3): 163-170. (Timon lepidus, new combination, p. 169). (in German, with an abstract in English).

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