How does the quiz work?

You see a photo and pick one of four species. After you answer, you get instant feedback, a short explanation, and a link to the species page.

Do I need an account?

No. The quiz works without registration and does not ask for personal data.

How many questions are there?

The default round is 10 questions. Each has one correct species and three plausible lookalikes.

Where do the photos and names come from?

The quiz uses the published reptiles.ge lizard catalog and field photos — there is no second species database. Darevskia species stay separate.

Which lizard is it? — Georgia lizard quiz

Practice with photos

How to read a lizard in a still frame

This page is a quiz, not a field-identification lesson. The question “what lizard is this?” is answered on the identify guide. Here you get one frame, four names, and time to train your eye on the atlas catalog. The glass lizard is in this quiz because it is a lizard.

Start with the silhouette. A long legless body may be the glass lizard or the slow worm — both are lizards. The Caucasian agama is an agamid: a heavier head, often on rock. Darevskia are small rock lizards that look alike in colour.

Eyelids and an ear opening, if visible, point to a lizard and rule out a snake. The glass lizard has them; the grass snake does not. Snakes are not quiz options, but the landing pair is here so a “snake” in a photo is not always a snake.

Then pattern and size — only marks already on the profiles. Darevskia stay separate species here: colour is not ID. If the frame shows only a green or brown back, do not guess from colour alone.

Habitat in the background helps, but the quiz does not ask where you are. Field identification lives on another page. The job here is speed of the eye on catalog photos. Below are four pairs from this atlas’s lizard identify guide.

Pairs that confuse a still photo

This is not field diagnosis. It is what the eye mixes in one frame — the same pairs as on the lizard identify guide.

Caucasian Agama · Caspian Thick-toed Gecko
The Caucasian agama is an agamid; the Caspian gecko is smaller, with different skin texture. Both are photographed on rock.
Caucasian Agama · Portschinsky's Lizard
The agama is not a Darevskia. Portschinsky’s rock lizard is smaller; colour does not split this pair.
European glass lizard · Colchis Slow Worm
The glass lizard is a large legless lizard; the slow worm is smaller and smoother. Both have eyelids. The slow worm is a checklist candidate.
European glass lizard · Grass snake
The glass lizard is a lizard: eyelids and an ear opening. The grass snake is a snake. The grass snake is not a quiz option.