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    Species Accepted

    Microlophus atacamensis (Donoso-Barros, 1960)

    Atacamen Pacific Iguana

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      3 results
      Atacama-kystleguan Danish
      Atacamen Pacific Iguana English
      Corredor de Atacama Spanish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      15 results
      Demangel, & Diego. (2016). Reptiles en Chile. Fauna Nativa Ediciones, Santiago, 619 Pp.
      Ortiz-Zapata, J. C. (1980). Revision taxonomica del género Tropidurus en Chile. Reunion Iberoam. Zool. Vertebr. 1: 355-377 (1977).
      Donoso-Barros, R. (1960). Ecología de los reptiles chilenos. Invest. Zool. Chilensis 6: 65-72.
      Eifler, Douglas A.; Wilfredo Briones Godoy & Maria A. Eifler. (2025). Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: Escape Behavior of the Lizard Microlophus atacamensis. South American Journal of Herpetology 37, No. 1: 41-46.
      Ávila, J. M., & Marambio-Alfaro, Y. (2023). Reptiles of the Atacama Region, northern Chile: localities, and representation in provinces, ecogeographic landscapes, vegetation formations and protected areas. Gayana, 87(2), 108-122.
      Eifler, M; Godoy, W B & Eifler, D A. (2018). Microlophus atacamensis (Atacamensis Pacific Iguana) Diet. Herpetological Review 49 (3): 537-538.
      Núñez, H. and A. Veloso. (2001). Distribución geográfica de las especies de lagartos de la región de Antofagasta, Chile. Bol. Mus. Nac.Hist. Nat. 50: 109-120.
      Eickhoff, H.-P., & Heisig, M. (1991). Zur Haltung des chilenschen Kielschwanzleguans Tropidurus atacamensis. Herpetofauna 13 (72): 6-10.
      Nagy, Kenneth A.; Carlos Guerra-Correa, Vaughan H. Shoemaker. (2021). Dining Intertidally: Diet, Energetics, and Osmotic Relations of Two Shoreline-Foraging Tropidurid Lizard Species. South American Journal of Herpetology 20 (1): 8-16.
      Donoso-Barros, R. (1966). Reptiles de Chile. Santiago: Univ. Chile, 458 + Cxlvi Pp.

      Citation

      Microlophus atacamensis (Donoso-Barros, 1960) in undefined