Abronia moreletii
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
Abronia moreletii, commonly known as Morelet's alligator lizard and escorpión de Morelet in Spanish, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Gerrhonotinae of the family Anguidae. The species is native to Central America. There are four recognized subspecies.
The specific name, moreletii, is in honor of French naturalist Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet. Abronia moreletii is native to southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The natural habitat of Abronia moreletii consists of Central American pine-oak forests and cloud forests between 1,450 and 2,530 metres (4,760 and 8,300 ft) above sea level.
Abronia moreletii is terrestrial and semi-arboreal. The mode of reproduction of Abronia moreletii has been described as being viviparous and as being ovoviviparous. Abronia moreletii moreletii (Bocourt, 1872) Abronia moreletii rafaeli (Hartweg & Tihen, 1946)
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Triunfo | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
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No species of the same family or order lives in El Triunfo, so these are its closest relatives here: other reptiles.
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Morelet's Alligator Lizard sighting in El Triunfo on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and March
In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Morelet's Alligator Lizard in El Triunfo on a given day, against about 10% in February, the lowest month. Those are among El Triunfo's driest months, with about 25 mm of rain a month against 420 mm in June. June and August–December have too few records to rate.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Morelet's Alligator Lizard sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only El Triunfo, in our data
El Triunfo is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Morelet's Alligator Lizard sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Morelet's Alligator Lizard is recorded against all the reptiles logged in El Triunfo (10 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
