Bluntnose leopard lizard

Weight

38.2 g – 40.4 gsrc for Weight

Length

9.75 cm – 10.8 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

5 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

grassland, shrublandsrc for Habitat

Egg incubation

60 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

1 – 6src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

20 monthssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1 – 4src for Litters or clutches a year

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

By day (diurnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderSquamata
5. familyCrotaphytidae
6. genusGambelia
7. SpeciesGambelia sila (Stejneger, 1890)

Synonyms Crotaphytus silus, Crotaphytus wislizenii silus, Gambelia wislizenii silus

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISITISWikidata

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• An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
  Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1
• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
  Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4
• SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
  Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b

@misc{bluntnose_leopard_lizard_2026,
  title = {Bluntnose leopard lizard (Gambelia sila)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/bluntnose-leopard-lizard},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}