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    Species Accepted

    Brachylophus vitiensis Gibbons, 1981

    Fiji Crested Iguana

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      21 results
      Eʼeʼaahjí Tónteeldę́ę́ʼ tsintah naʼashǫ́ʼiitsoh Navajo
      Fiji Crested Iguana English
      Fiji Crested lguana English
      Fijian Crested Iguana English
      Gekamde fijileguaan Dutch
      Iguana Crestada de Fiji Spanish
      Iguane à crête de Fidji French
      Legwan witijski Polish
      Legwan wityjski Polish
      Tarajos leguán Hungarian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      22 results
      Parker, M.R. and Fitzgerald, L.A. (2024). Using life history to predict outcomes of conservation translocations of herpetofauna. Anim. Conserv.
      Gibbons, J. R. H. (1984). Iguanas of the South Pacific. Oryx 18: 82-91.
      Zug, G. R. (1991). The lizards of Fiji: Natural history and systematics. Bishop Mus. Bull. Zool. 2: 1-136.
      Zicha O, Hrb J, Maňas M, Novák J, and BioLib contributors. BioLib.cz: Taxonomic tree of plants and animals with photos. 1999 - 2019, https://www.biolib.cz/en/main/
      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).
      ZUG, G. R. (2013). Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, 306 Pp.
      Gibbons, John R. H. (1984). Wildlife as Canon sees it: A photographic heritage for all generations: Fijian Crested Iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis). National Geographic 166(3):Unnumbered.
      Gibbons, J. R. H. (1981). The biogeography of Brachylophus (Iguanidae) including the description of a new species, B. vitiensis, from Fiji. Journal of Herpetology 15 (3): 255-273.
      Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, S., Pasachnik, S. A. ... Evans, T. (2024). What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18.
      Burns, E. L., Costello, B. H., & Houlden, B. A. (2007). Three evolutionary significant units for conservation in the iguanid genus Brachylophus. Pacific Conservation Biology 123(1): 64-78.

      Citation

      Brachylophus vitiensis Gibbons, 1981 in undefined