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Table 34. — Specimens of Cyclura cornuta cornuta examined 



CYCLURA RICORDII (Dumenl and Bibron) 



Figure 63 



1837. Aloponotus ricordii Dumeril and Bibron, Erpetologie generate, vol. 4, 



p. 190, pi. 38. 

 1843. Hypsilophus (Aloponotus) ricordii Fitzinger, Systema reptilium, p. 54. 

 1845. Aloponotus ricardi Gray, Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the 



collection of the British Museum, p. 187. 

 1885. Metopoceros cornutus Boulenger, Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in 



the collection of the British Museum, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 188 (part) (not of 



Bonnaterre). 

 1924. Cyclura ricordii Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 5. — 



Barbour, Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. 97, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 119, 1935; 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 134, 1937. 



No new alcoholic material has come under my observation since my 

 redescription of the specimen collected in 1919 by Dr. Abbott, which 

 was the first one to be brought to a scientific institution since the type 

 was taken in 1784. The redescription follows, with some slight 

 changes from my first account. 



Description. — Adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 62557, Duverge, Dominican 

 Republic; October 3, 1919; W. L. Abbott, collector. Rostral one and 

 one-half times as wide as high, as wide as mental, broadly in contact 

 with nasals; nasal large, irregularly rectangular, slightly higher than 

 wide, perforated by a round nostril equal in diameter to one-half the 

 height of the rostral; postnasal large, two-thirds size of nasal and 

 broadly in contact with it; nasals in contact with each other in middle 

 line of snout behind rostral for about half their width, when they are 

 separated by a single flat, triangular shield ; no conical hornlike scales 

 on snout; the top of the head covered by irregularly polygonal shields, 



