Reptilia · Squamata
Gila Monster
Heloderma suspectum
Heavy, sluggish venomous lizard of arid desert scrublands, spending over 90% of its life hidden in underground burrows.
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 657 licence-filtered records across 50 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (38)
- Anfibios y reptiles de las regiones 30 (Parque Natural Sierra Maderas del Carmen); 31 (Sierra El Burro-Río San Rodrigo); 36 (Sierra La Encantada); y 37 (Sierra El Pino), Coahuila (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Anfibios y reptiles de las regiones 30 (Parque Natural Sierra Maderas del Carmen); 31 (Sierra El Burro-Río San Rodrigo); 36 (Sierra La Encantada); y 37 (Sierra El Pino), Coahuila (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Apoyo a las colecciones biológicas de la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM: Fase 1 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Apoyo a las colecciones biológicas de la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM: Fase 1 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Cowan Tetrapod Collection - Herpetology (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Digitalización y Sistematización de las Colecciones Biológicas Nacionales del Instituto de Biología, UNAM (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Formación de una base de datos y elaboración de un atlas de la herpetofauna de México (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- LACM Vertebrates (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- NMNH Extant Biology (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Sistemática e historia natural de algunos anfibios y reptiles de México (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Herpetology Collection (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Reptiles & Amphibians (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)