What sets the yellow spotted lizard apart from other lizards? There are several things in fact. It is reported to have exactly eleven spots, it has red rings around its eyes, its bite is venomous and can even be fatal, and it doesn’t exist.It’s A Character In A Book – Actually the yellow spotted lizard does exits in a sense; it exists in the mind of author Louis Sachar and is found in his wonderful and somewhat scary children’s book, Holes. In the book, a young boy named Stanley Yelnats is given the choice by a judge of either going to jail, or going to a correctional facility called Camp Green Lake. Stanley chooses what appears to be a pleasant sounding place.