Japanese grass lizard

Japanese grass lizard

The Japanese grass lizard is a reptile belonging to the grass lizard family. Its back is gray black to brown, while its belly is yellow white to yellow brown. There are usually three color bands on the side of the body: a black brown band that extends from directly above the nostrils, through the eyes and ears, to the front end of the tail, and a black brown band that originates from the lower edge of the eyes, passes below the ears, and extends to the back half of the body. Between these two color bands is a yellow brown band. But sometimes these ribbons only extend to the vicinity of the forelimbs and no longer continue to extend further.