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Lebanon lizard

Phoenicolacerta laevis (Gray, 1838)

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The lebanon lizard (Phoenicolacerta laevis) is a species in the family Lacertidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh 4.22 g to 7.5 g and reach 6.52 cm in length.

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Quick facts about the lebanon lizard

Weight
4.22 g – 7.5 gsrc for Weight
Length
6.26 cm – 6.52 cmsrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Carnivoresrc for Diet
Longest recorded lifespan
12 years
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
shrubland, woodlandsrc for Habitat
Egg incubation
52 dayssrc for Egg incubation
Young per litter or clutch
2 – 8src for Young per litter or clutch
Age at maturity
6 months – 20 monthssrc for Age at maturity
Litters or clutches a year
2 – 4src 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

How big is the lebanon lizard?

LEBANON LIZARD · LENGTH 6.52 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 6.52 cm, the recorded maximum length of the lebanon lizard is about 3.8% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the lebanon lizard live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the lebanon lizard as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Georgia

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the lebanon lizard endangered?

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.

How is the lebanon lizard classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyLacertidae
  6. genusPhoenicolacerta
  7. SpeciesPhoenicolacerta laevis (Gray, 1838)

Synonyms Archaeolacerta laevis, Lacerta judaica, Lacerta laevis

Other names and names in other languages (12)
  • Lebannoon lizardEnglish
  • سحلية فينيقيةArabic
  • ještěrka libanonskáCzech
  • SilkefirbenDanish
  • Syrische EidechseGerman
  • Σαύρα του ΛίβανουGreek
  • Lagartija libanesaSpanish
  • לטאה זריזהHebrew
  • Lucertola del LibanoItalian
  • Ливанская ящерицаRussian
  • Hatay KertenkelesiTurkish
  • Suriye KertenkelesiTurkish

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Relatives of the lebanon lizard

Other species in the same genus Phoenicolacerta.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the lebanon lizard?

An adult lebanon lizard weighs 4.22 g – 7.5 g and measures 6.26 cm – 6.52 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the lebanon lizard an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the lebanon lizard as introduced in 1 country: Georgia, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the lebanon lizard?

The lebanon lizard (Phoenicolacerta laevis) belongs to the family Lacertidae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Lebanon lizard (Phoenicolacerta laevis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/lebanon-lizard

MLA

“Lebanon lizard (Phoenicolacerta laevis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/lebanon-lizard.

BibTeX
@misc{lebanon_lizard_2026,
  title = {Lebanon lizard (Phoenicolacerta laevis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/lebanon-lizard},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}