Endangered
Dunn's spinytail lizard
Morunasaurus groi
Dunn's spinytail lizard is a lizard or snake in the family Hoplocercidae — Morunasaurus groi, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Males are reddish-brown with dark brown transverse bands across the back, reaching to the middle of the sides and then breaking up into small, irregular dark spots. Small white spots occur between the dark bands above the first longitudinal row of tubercles. The neck is red, with an incomplete white collar three to five scales wide, extending somewhat obliquely from just ahead of the forearm upward to the scapular region. The collar is edged on both sides by dark brown.
Range and habitat
E. Groi is found in central Panama and in northwestern Colombia. E. Groi usually lives in forest, at altitudes of 600–900 m (2,000–3,000 ft). The species is native to northwestern South America and Panama.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Dunn's spinytail 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 Dunn's spinytail lizard, Wikidata item Q211406. 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.
