Southern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria multicarinata) Fact Sheet: Population & Conservation Status

Population estimates

• Not precisely monitored
  • Thought to exceed 100,000 (Hammerson and Hollingsworth 2007)
• Known from hundreds of locations (Hammerson and Hollingsworth 2007)

Population trend

• Decreasing (Hammerson and Hollingsworth 2007)

IUCN Status

• Least Concern (2007 assessment) (Hammerson and Hollingsworth 2007)

CITES Status

• Not listed (UNEP 2019)

• Development and habitat destruction
• Fire
• Indiscriminate killing
• Introduced species, including cats and dogs
• Roads cutting through pathways (Lemm 2006) although movement patterns of northern species suggest site fidelity may lessen their vulnerability to presence of roads (Rutherford and Gregory 2003)

• No direct management actions currently needed
• Thought to occur in many protected areas

IUCN (2008)
Lemm (2006)
Rutherford & Gregory (2003)