Tropidurus hygomi
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Tropidurus hygomi, also known commonly as Reinhardt's lava lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae. The species is native to the Northeast Region of Brazil. The specific name, hygomi, is in honor of Danish merchant seaman Vilhelm Johannes Willaius Hygom (born 1818), who collected natural history specimens, both land and marine.
T. hygomi is found in the Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe. The preferred natural habitat of T. hygomi is sandy areas, in forest and shrubland. T. hygomi has an average snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 3.43 cm (1.35 in).
T. hygomi is terrestrial and diurnal. T. hygomi preys predominately upon ants, beetles, and termites, but also eats larvae and adults of other insects, spiders, wood lice, centipedes, and millipedes. T. hygomi is oviparous.
Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ.... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV.... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Salvador | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Reinhardt's Lava Lizard sighting in Salvador on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 8th most-seen of the 12 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Reinhardt's Lava Lizard in Salvador on a given day, against under 5% in May, July–August, October and December–February, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Reinhardt's Lava Lizard sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Salvador, in our data
Salvador is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Reinhardt's Lava Lizard sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Reinhardt's Lava Lizard is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Salvador (10 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
