Lizard?

Kilnababe · 01-03-2016 10:52pm #1

Just found this guy in the kitchen. Size is reflected on a standard terracotta tile.
Any idea what it might be or how common.

Thanks.

Mickeroo · 01-03-2016 11:24pm

Yea that's a common or viviparous lizard, relatively common across the country but not often you see them. I've only ever spotted them a couple of times basking on rocks in the summer during good weather. Our only native repltile if I'm not mistaken?

locum-motion · 02-03-2016 11:11am

Mickeroo wrote: »

... Our only native repltile if I'm not mistaken?

I think we have slow worms as well, and they're reptiles.

Mickeroo · 02-03-2016 12:47pm

locum-motion wrote: »

I think we have slow worms as well, and they're reptiles.

Pretty sure they ain't native though?

locum-motion · 02-03-2016 3:01pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Pretty sure they ain't native though?

You appear to be correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reptiles_of_Ireland

OpenYourEyes · 02-03-2016 4:15pm

...are we sure that's a Lizard and not a Newt?

Mickeroo · 02-03-2016 4:32pm

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

...are we sure that's a Lizard and not a Newt?

Huh, you could be right actually. I thought it didn't look small or "shiny" enough if you get me but there's nothing there for scale bar the tiles.

OpenYourEyes · 02-03-2016 4:34pm

It doesn't look scale-y at all, and proportions look OK for Newt?

Kilnababe - did it have an obvious scale-y appearance?

Kilnababe · 02-03-2016 8:02pm

Thanks everyone. Yes it definitely did have a scaley appearance.

OpenYourEyes · 02-03-2016 8:37pm

I'm still going with Newt tbh - I asked a friend and they agreed. Lizards, being cold blooded, are probably unlikely to end up in the house. Was this pic taken at night by any chance?

Kilnababe · 02-03-2016 8:40pm

Yes it was.

cd07 · 06-03-2016 1:40am

Yep newt for me

Eric Marley · 12-03-2016 10:00pm

lizard of course. No doubt.

OpenYourEyes · 12-03-2016 10:12pm

If you look at the picture at the below link you'll see the first picture of a common lizard picture, taken by Pat Somers in Wexford.

It is very obviously scaley, has very long fingers on its front hands, and has a distinct blank line on an otherwise green/yellow scaley back. The eyes even look lower-set than the OP's picture here.

I've also never heard of a lizard turning up outside very specific habitats, whereas I know that Newts go wandering a lot at night at this time of year.

http://www.rte.ie/news/galleries/2015/0529/704613-ireland-pictures/