Western Green Lizard

• reproducciónThe males develop a deep blue throat in the breeding season, a visual signal of genetic quality to the females.
• In the breeding season the male's throat turns an intense turquoise blue, and in some populations the female's does too, a feature that has been linked to signalling physical condition.
• In Spain its distribution is limited to a strip across the north of the peninsula, and its populations depend on the hedgerows and margins between fields, a habitat in continual decline.
• It was separated from the eastern green lizard as a species of its own in the 1990s: for decades the two were regarded as a single widespread European species.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (reptile)

Habitat and environment

Hedgerows, field margins, scrub, sunny banks and woodland edges of south-western Europe

Sexual maturity

2 years

Gestation / incubation

70 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

12 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacerta_bilineata

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.