Endangered
Rough-necked Alligator Lizard
Barisia rudicollis
Rough-necked Alligator Lizard is a lizard or snake in the family Anguidae — Barisia rudicollis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Mexico.
The lizard or snake
This named form is a lizard or snake. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
The species is endemic to Mexico.
GBIF currently lists 88 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Rough-necked Alligator Lizard is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Barisia rudicollis — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2884553 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
