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    Species Accepted

    Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758)

    American Iguana
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Iguana
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Recorded as introduced in 35 countries or islands

      35 results
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      United Arab EmiratesNo
      Antigua and BarbudaNo
      AnguillaNo
      ArgentinaNo
      BelgiumNo
      BelgiumNoUnknown
      Saint BarthélemyYes
      Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and SabaYesUnknown
      BahamasNo
      DominicaNo
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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      68 results
      Adi iquana Azerbaijani
      American Iguana English
      Bamboo Chicken English
      Black iguana English
      Blue Iguana English
      Camaleão Portuguese
      Central American Green Iguana English
      Common Green Iguana English
      Common Iguana English
      Green Iguana English

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
      3 results
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      296 results
      Hirth, H. F. (1963). Some Apects of the Natural History of Iguana iguana on a Tropical Strand. Ecology 44 (3): 613-615.
      Sexton, O. J. (1975). Black Vultures Feeding on Iguana Eggs in Panama. American Midland Naturalist 93(2): 463-468.
      Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson. (2015). The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329.
      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).
      Urbina-Cardona, J. Nicolás; Mario Olivares-Pérez, Víctor Hugo Reynoso. (2006). Herpetofauna diversity and microenvironment correlates across a pasture–edge–interior ecotone in tropical rainforest fragments in the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve of Veracruz, Mexico. Biological Conservation 132: 61–75.
      McCranie, James R., Leonardo Valdés Orellana and Alexander Gutsche. (2013). New departmental records for amphibians and reptiles in Honduras. Herpetological Review 44 (2): 288-289.
      Wagensveld, T. P. v., & Matthijs van den Burg. (2018). First record on fecundity of an Iguana hybrid and its implications for conservation: evidence for genetic swamping by non-native iguanas. Herpetology Notes 11: 1079-1082.
      Vanzolini, P. E. (1974). Ecological and geographical distribution of lizards in Pernambuco, northeastern Brasil (Sauria). Papeis Avulsos de Zool. 28(4): 61-90.
      Lazell, James D., Jr. (1973). The lizard genus Iguana in the Lesser Antilles. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 145 (1): 1-28.
      Calderon, R.; Cedeño-Vázquez, J.R. & Pozo, C. (2003). New distributional records for amphibians and reptiles from Campeche, Mexico. Herpetological Review 34 (3): 269-272.

      Citation

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