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    Species Accepted

    Cyclura rileyi Stejneger, 1903

    Acklin's Ground Iguana
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Cyclura
    IUCNEndangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      19 results
      Acklin's Ground Iguana English
      Acklins Iguana
      Acklins Rock Iguana
      Bahamian Rock Iguana English
      Central Bahamian Rock Iguana English
      Cyclure des Bahamas French
      Iguana de Salvador Spanish
      Iguana terrestre delle Bahamas Italian
      Iguana terricola delle Bahamas Italian
      Iguane terrestre des Bahamas French

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      15 results
      Lemm, J. M., & Alberts, A. C. (2012). Cyclura. Elsevier / Academic Press, 221 Pp.
      Uetz PH, Powell R. (2025). Etymologies of Caribbean reptiles. Caribbean Herpetology 98: 1–9.
      Schwartz, A., & Henderson, R. W. (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 Pp.
      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).
      Beolens, B., & Michael Watkins, a. M. G. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
      Stejneger, L. (1903). A new species of large iguana from the Bahama Islands. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 16:129-132.
      Iverson, John B.; Geoffrey R. Smith, Stesha A. Pasachnik, Kirsten N. Hines, and Lynne Pieper. (2016). Growth, Coloration, and Demography of an Introduced Population of the Acklins Rock Iguana (Cyclura rileyi nuchalis) in the Exuma Islands, the Bahamas. Herp. Cons. Biol. 11 (Monograph 6).
      GASKINS, Leo C. & Brian R. SILLIMAN. (2015). Crab predation by the San Salvador rock iguana (Cyclura rileyi). Herpetological Bulletin (132).
      Schmidt, K. P. (1920). A new Cyclura from White Cay, Bahama Islands. Proc. Linn. Soc. New York 33: 6-7.
      Malone,C.L.; Wheeler,T.; Taylor, J.F. & Davis,S.K. (2000). Phylogeography of the Caribbean Rock Iguana (Cyclura): implications for conservation and insights on the biogeographic history of the West Indies. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 17 (2): 269.

      Citation

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