Endangered
Guatemalan beaded lizard
Heloderma charlesbogerti
Guatemalan beaded lizard is a lizard or snake in the family Helodermatidae — Heloderma charlesbogerti, recorded as Endangered and tied to Guatemala.
The lizard or snake
Guatemalan beaded lizard is a lizard or snake in the family Helodermatidae — Heloderma charlesbogerti.
Range and habitat
The species is endemic to the dry forests of the Motagua Valley in southeastern Guatemala, an ecoregion known as the Motagua Valley thornscrub. It is the only allopatric beaded lizard species, separated from the nearest population (H. Alvarezi) by 250 km (160 mi) of unsuitable habitat.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
H. Charlesbogerti dwells in arroyos characterized by high densities of bird nests of doves and parakeets, whose eggs form the primary component of its diet. It is also known to prey upon insects, such as beetles and crickets.
In crisis
Guatemalan beaded 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 Guatemalan beaded lizard, Wikidata item Q130644914. 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.
