🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the European glass lizard live?

Pseudopus apodus has 6,215 records in 29 countries and territories, from 1835 to 2026. Most records come from Greece.

AnimaliaChordataSquamataAnguidaePseudopus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Greece 1,461
Israel 1,208
Bulgaria 890
Croatia 798
Russia 331
Montenegro 285
Ukraine 280
Georgia 253
Türkiye 142
Armenia 125
Iran 121
Albania 77
Bosnia & Herzegovina 50
Turkmenistan 40
Azerbaijan 32
Kazakhstan 31
Uzbekistan 30
Syria 18
Tajikistan 12
North Macedonia 9
Austria 6
Lebanon 4
Kyrgyzstan 3
Palestine 3
Iraq 2
Germany 1
Italy 1
Netherlands 1
United States 1

Related animals

Others in the family Anguidae.

Slow worm
Slow worm
265,144 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.