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    Species Accepted

    Ctenosaura hemilopha (Cope, 1863)

    Baja California Spiny- tailed Iguana
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Ctenosaura
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Baja California Schwarzleguan German
      Baja California Spiny- tailed Iguana English
      Baja California-tornhaleleguan Danish
      Baja-California-Schwarzleguan German
      Cape Spiny-tailed Iguana English
      Cape Spinytail Iguana English
      Garrobo del Cabo Spanish
      Iguana Roñosa Spanish
      Iguana de Cola Espinosa de Baja California Spanish
      Iguana de Palo Spanish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      39 results
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      Avery, D. F., & Tanner, W. W. (1971). Evolution of the iguanine lizards (Sauria, Iguanidae) as determined by osteological and myological characters. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin 12 (3): 1-79.
      Buckley, Larry J.; Kevin de Queiroz, Tandora D. Grant, Bradford D. Hollingsworth, John B. Iverson (Chair, Stesha A. Pasachnik, and Catherine L. Stephen (Iguana Taxonomy Working Group, ITWG. (2016). A Checklist of the Iguanas of the World (Iguanidae; Iguaninae). Herp. Cons. Biol. 11 (Monograph 6).
      Ruiz-Campos, Gorgonio and Jorge H. Valdez-Villavicencio. (2011). Geographic Distribution: Ctenosaura hemilopha (Baja California spiny-tailed iguana). Herpetological Review 42 (3): 391.
      Grismer, L. Lee. (1999). An evolutionary classification of reptiles on islands in the Gulf of California, México. Herpetologica 55 (4): 446-469.
      Heimes, P. (2022). LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 Pp.
      Blázquez, M.C.; Rodríguez Estrella, R. & Munguía VEga, A. (2006). Characterization of 10 microsatellite loci in the spiny-tailed iguana Ctenosaura hemilopha. Molecular Ecology Notes 6: 753–755.
      de Queiroz K. (1995). Checklist and key to the extant species of Mexican iguanas (Reptilia: Iguaninae). Publ. Esp. Mus. Zool. Univ. Nac. Autón. México 9: 1-48.
      Smith, H. M. (1972). The sonoran subspecies of the lizard Ctenosaura hemilopha. Great Basin Naturalist 32 (2): 104-111.
      Cope, E. D. (1886). On the species of Iguaninae. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23 (122): 261-271.

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