The Lizard Lizard, also known as hemp snake, scorpion tiger, snake tiger, is a lizard family and an animal of the genus hemp. The red-spotted lizard is diurnal, alert in nature, agile in action, strong in attack power, and has a small range of activities. It is mainly distributed in North Korea, Mongolia, Russia, China and other countries.

Let's take a brief look at the leopard lizard.

I. Basic information

【Chinese name】Eremias argus

【Latin name】Eremias argus

[Alias] Snakes and Worms, Hemp Snakes, Scorpion Tigers, Snakes and Tigers

[Kingdom] Animal Kingdom

[Door] Chordate

【Subphylum】Vertebrate subphylum

【Class】Reptiles

【Order】Saurididae

【Suborder】Saurididae

【Family】Lizardidae

【Genus】Lizardus

【Species】Lizardidae

II. Morphology Characters

1. Body shape: The body of the leopard lizard is long and slightly flat, the tail is round and long, the head and body are 46-56 (average 53.9) mm, and the tail length is 49-64 (average 53.9) mm. 55.3) mm.

2. Characteristics: The head of the Lizardia lizard is slightly flat and wide, and the front end is slightly rounded and blunt. The snout scale is pentagonal, adjacent to the first upper lip scale and the upper nasal scale; the outer nostrils do not meet the lip. The dorsal scales are fine and granular, with about 50-61 scales in the middle of the back, in a row. The back is brown-gray with green, brown-green, tan, black-gray and other colors, and the top of the head is brown-gray, and there are 3 long black and yellow stripes on the side of the head and neck.

3. Living habits

1. Habitat: The lepidopterus lives in various environments such as plains, hills, grasslands, low mountains and agricultural areas, and prefers warm, dry and sunny conditions. sandy soil environment as habitat.

2. Diet: Lizardia lizards have a wide range of diets, including insects, arachnids, crustaceans, polypods, oligochaetes and other animals, mostly insects, among which, coleoptera , Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera.

IV. Protection grades

The red-spotted lizard has been included in the Three Possibilities list issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000 , belonging to protected animals. Included in the 2013 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ver3.1 - Near Threatened (NT). Included in the China Biodiversity Red List - Vertebrate Volume, and the assessment level is Vulnerable (VU).

The above is all about the leopard lizard, thank you for watching.