lizard Archives - Lizzie Harper https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image_tag/lizard/ Natural History Illustration - for books, magazines & packaging Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:05:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Montserrat ameiva (ground lizard) Pholidoscelis pluvianotatusn https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/montserrat-ameiva-ground-lizard-pholidoscelis-pluvianotatusn/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:05:27 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?post_type=image&p=15660 From the series of Animals of Montserrat colouring-in illustrations commissioned by UKOTCF

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]]> Montserrat galliwasp Diploglossus montisserrati https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/montserrat-galliwasp-diploglossus-montisserrati/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:05:21 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?post_type=image&p=15661 From the series of Animals of Montserrat colouring-in illustrations commissioned by UKOTCF

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]]> Plymouth anole Anolis lividus https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/plymouth-anole-anolis-lividus/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:04:17 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?post_type=image&p=15666 From the series of Animals of Montserrat colouring-in illustrations commissioned by UKOTCF

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]]> Te Mokomoko a tohu Gecko https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/te-mokomoko-a-tohu-gecko/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:00:06 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?post_type=image&p=15345 Te Mokomoko a tohu Gecko Hoplodactylus tohu showing pronounced brillar-fold, reduced infralabial fourth scale, and yellow eye.  Coommissioned by the scientist who recently discovered this new species.  

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]]> Te Mokomoko a tohu Gecko Hoplodactylus tohu showing pronounced brillar-fold, reduced infralabial fourth scale, and yellow eye.  Coommissioned by the scientist who recently discovered this new species.

 

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]]> Thorny devil Moloch horridus https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/thorny-devil-moloch-horridus/ Tue, 04 May 2021 12:38:57 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?post_type=image&p=10712 Thorny devil Moloch horridus showing spines and a surly expression. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

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Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

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]]> Gecko foot anatomy https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/gecko-foot-anatomy/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:39:00 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?post_type=image&p=10559 Gecko foot anatomy showing branched setae under magnification.  This microscopic branching is what makes gecko feet so sticky.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Aryee (BBC Books).

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]]> Gecko foot anatomy showing branched setae under magnification.  This microscopic branching is what makes gecko feet so sticky.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Aryee (BBC Books).

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]]> Sand Dunes Landscape https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/sand-dunes-landscape/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:04:19 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?post_type=image&p=9845 Large landscape showing an idealised view of Bantham estate in Devon.  It explains the process of succession and stabilization in a sand dunes landscape.  Over 28 species of plant and 17 animals appear in this natural history illustration.  These include adders to sand wasps, Comma butterflies to linnets, and marram grass to Sea carrots. Species […]

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]]> Large landscape showing an idealised view of Bantham estate in Devon.  It explains the process of succession and stabilization in a sand dunes landscape.  Over 28 species of plant and 17 animals appear in this natural history illustration.  These include adders to sand wasps, Comma butterflies to linnets, and marram grass to Sea carrots.

Species List Plants:

  • Biting stonecrop
  • Bracken
  • Bramble
  • Burnet saxifrage
  • Carline thistle
  • Clematis
  • Clover
  • Germander speedwell
  • Goats beard
  • Kidney vetch
  • Lady’s bedstraw
  • Large flowered evening primrose
  • Lyme grass
  • Marram grass
  • Pyramidal orchid
  • Restharrow
  • Sand couch
  • Sea bindweed
  • Sea buckthorn
  • Sea holly
  • Sea rocket
  • Sea sandwort
  • Sea spurge
  • Selfheal
  • Stinking iris
  • Wild carrot
  • Woody nightshade
  • Yarrow

Species List Animals:

  • Bumblebee
  • Cinnabar moth
  • Clouded yellow butterfly
  • Comma butterfly
  • Common blue butterfly
  • Common lizard
  • Digger wasp
  • Grasshoppers
  • Great green bush cricket
  • Green Tiger beetle
  • Grey bush-cricket
  • Linnet
  • Sand wasp
  • Slow worm
  • Wheatear

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]]> Cornish heath Erica vagans https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/cornish-heath-erica-vagans/ https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/cornish-heath-erica-vagans/#respond Sat, 15 Sep 2018 06:03:48 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/cornish-heath-erica-vagans/ Cornish heath Erica vagans showing dense foliage and individual pale pink flower

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]]> https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/cornish-heath-erica-vagans/feed/ 0 Slow worm Anguis fragilis https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/slow-worm-anguis-fragilis/ https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/slow-worm-anguis-fragilis/#respond Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:06:02 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/slow-worm-anguis-fragilis-jpg/ Slow worm Anguis fragilis

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]]> https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/slow-worm-anguis-fragilis/feed/ 0 Rainbow Agama lizard Agama agama.jpg https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/rainbow-agama-lizard-agama-agama-jpg/ https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/rainbow-agama-lizard-agama-agama-jpg/#respond Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:05:33 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/image/rainbow-agama-lizard-agama-agama-jpg/ Rainbow agama lizard Agama agama pen and ink

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