REPULÍA: SAURIA: IGUANIDAE 



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 IGUANA 



IGUANA Laurenti 



1768 Iguana Laurenti, Synopsin Reptillum; 47. Type-spec i es: Iguana tuberculata Laurenti. 

 18^0 Hypsilophus Wagler. Nat. Syst. Amph.: 147. Type-spec i es: Lacerta iguana Linnaeus. 

 1828 Pr ionodus Wagler, Isis von Oken, 21 (S/j): 860. Type-spec les: Lacerta iguana Linnaeus. 



Distribution: Tropical America from Mexico to southern Brazil and Paraguay; coastal islands of 

 Caribbean area; West Indies. 



Content: Two species, one ( del ¡cat iss ima Laurenti) ex tral in i tal . 



IGUANA IGUANA (Linnaeus) 



17'58 Lacerta Iguana Linnaeus. Systema Naturae, Ed. 10: 206. Tvpe-locaJ i ty: "In Indiis". 

 1898 Iguana [ iguana j — Van Denburgh, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., I857: 461. 



Distribution: From Mexico and adjacent Caribbean islands to southern Brazil and Paraguay. 



Content: Two subspecies. 



Key to the subspecies 



1. With two or three soft tubercles on 



snout rh i nolopha 



No tubercles on snout i guana 



Clave de subespecies 



1. Con dos tres tubérculos blandos y cónicos 



en el hocico rh i nolopha 



Sin tubérculos en el hocico i guana 



I guana i guana i guana (Linnaeus) 



?1768 Iguana m i nima Laurenti, Synopsin Reptillum: 48. Type-locality: Unknown. 

 1768 Iguana tuberculata Laurenti, Synopsin Reptillum: 48. Type-locality: Unknown. 

 1802 Iguana caerulea Daudin. Hist. Nat. Rept., J: 286. Type-locality: Surinam and Formosa. 

 1806 l|_ guana j vulgaris Link (replacement name for Lacerta i guana Linnaeus), Beschreibung der 



Natural ien-Sammlung der Universitat zu Rostock, 2: 58. 

 1820 Iguana sapidissima Merrem, Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum: 4/. Type-locality: Tropical 



America. 

 I825 I guana squamosa Spix, Spec. Nov. Lacert. Braz.: 5> Pl • 5- Type-locality: Bahia and 



Para, Braz 11. 

 I825 Iguana vir id is Spix, Spec. Nov. Lacert. Bras.: 6, pi. 6. Type-locality: Rio San 



Francisco, Itapicuru, Brazil. 

 I825 Iguana emarg inata Spix, Spec. Nov. Lacert. Bras.: ], pi. 8. Type-locality: Rio San 



Francisco, Brazil. 

 182^) Iguana lophyroides Spix, Spec. Nov. Lacert. Bras.: 8, pi. 9- Type-locality: Forest of 



Rio de Janeiro, and Bahia, Brazil. 

 1898 Iguana iguana [ iguana j — Van Denbergh, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1897: 461. 



Distribution: From southern Costa Rica and adjacent Caribbean islands to tropical South 

 America. 



I guana iguana rh i nolopha Wiegmann 



I834 Iguana ( Hyps ilophus ) rh I nolophus Wiegmann, Herpetologia Mexicana: 44. Type-locality: 



Mexico; restricted to Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci 



Bull., 33, 1550, 347- 



1898 Iguana iguana rh i nolopha — Van Denburgh, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I897: 46l. 

 Distribution: Sinaloa and Veracruz, Mexico to southern Costa Rica. 



