Critically Endangered
Liolaemus lutzae
Liolaemus lutzae
Liolaemus lutzae is an iguanian lizard in the family Liolaemidae, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The iguanian lizard
Liolaemid lizards are South American iguanians of rock, sand, and scrub. Many are live-bearing at altitude.
Range and habitat
L. Lutzae is found in the Brazilian states of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro. The natural L. Lutzae usually lives in sandy shores. The species is endemic to Brazil.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
L. Lutzae is threatened by habitat loss.
Liolaemus lutzae is Critically 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 Liolaemus lutzae — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3727515. 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.
