Pearce Avenue
(Dorset)

Closest Town:

POOLE (1.4 km)

Introduction date:

c 2006

Site Name:

Pearce Avenue

Source of introduction:

Captive bred stock, assumed escapees.

Site Access:

Private

Colony Status:

Extant

Relative population estimate:

60

Extirpation date:

N/a

Believed to be escapees from the collection of a private breeder. Unusually, this colony includes melanistic specimens, suggesting the possibility that the stock is separate from other local colonies, where melanistic animals have not been recorded.

Moderate ecological impact, should the lizards expand their range significantly, as Sand lizard sites are close by.

Residential Gardens

Assumed to be animals of Italian origin.