Yellow tegu
Salvator duseni (Lönnberg, 1910)
Status not recordedlizards
The yellow tegu (Salvator duseni) is a species in the family Teiidae, order Squamata.
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Quick facts about the yellow tegu
- Weight
- up to 2.4 kgsrc for Weight
- Length
- up to 41 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Omnivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- grassland, shrublandsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Active
- By day (diurnal)src for Active
- Lifestyle
- Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
Where does the yellow tegu live?
Not recorded
Is the yellow tegu 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 yellow tegu classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classReptilia
- orderSquamata
- familyTeiidae
- genusSalvator
- SpeciesSalvator duseni (Lönnberg, 1910)
Synonyms Tupinambis duseni
Other names and names in other languages (6)
- イエローテグーJapanese
- TeiúPortuguese
- Teiú-do-CerradoPortuguese
- Teiú-mascaradoPortuguese
- Teiú-ParaensePortuguese
- Тупинамбис ЛённбергаRussian
Relatives of the yellow tegu
Other species in the same genus Salvator.
Black tegu
Salvator merianae
Red tegu
Salvator rufescens
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
What kind of animal is the yellow tegu?
The yellow tegu (Salvator duseni) belongs to the family Teiidae in the order Squamata.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- 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
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