Fence lizard

Weight

7 g – 9.51 gsrc for Weight

Length

6.25 cm – 6.39 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

4 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

forestsrc for Habitat

Egg incubation

44.5 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

3 – 17src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

9.5 months – 2 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1 – 5src for Litters or clutches a year

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

By day (diurnal)src for Active

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. familyPhrynosomatidae
6. genusSceloporus
7. SpeciesSceloporus undulatus (Bosc & Daudin, 1801)

Synonyms Agama undulata, Lacerta fasciata, Lacerta hyacinthina, Lacerta undulata, Sceloporus floridanus, Sceloporus thayerii, Sceloporus thayerii, Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus, Stellio undulatus, Stellio undulatus

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

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• Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI): interpreted data products · CC0 1.0 · 0.11
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@misc{fence_lizard_2026,
  title = {Fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/fence-lizard},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}