Endangered
Gerrhonotus parvus
Gerrhonotus parvus
Gerrhonotus parvus is a lizard or snake in the family Anguidae, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
It is a relatively small species, with the maximum reported snout–vent length at 76 mm (3.0 in). Its head is glossy and smooth, grayish brown in color with scattered dark spots. The lips are peppered with pigment and the chin and throat are white in color.
The name parvus is from the Latin word for small because it is the species of smallest adult size recognized in the genus Gerrhonotus.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. It lives in dry forests transitioning to scrub in the eastern Sierra Madre Oriental at elevations of 900–1,650 m (2,950–5,410 ft) above sea level.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Gerrhonotus parvus 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 Gerrhonotus parvus, Wikidata item Q3104299. 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.
