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This list of reptiles of Mexico is made up of 995 species of reptiles registered in Mexico. [1] Listing is based on The Reptile Database. [ 1 ] The reptiles of Mexico are grouped into 3 orders and 35 families, and include snakes, lizards, crocodilians and turtles.
A male green iguana. Iguana (/ ɪ ˈ ɡ w ɑː n ə /, [4] [5] Spanish:) is a genus of herbivorous lizards that are native to tropical areas of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
Iguana meat has historically been important in the culinary traditions of Mexico and Central America; particularly in the states of Jalisco, Michoacán and Colima. In Fray Sahagún 's history of colonial Mexico , he mentions the iguana as a traditional food throughout Western Mexico and describes it as good to eat when properly prepared.
The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as the American iguana or the common green iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana. Usually, this animal is simply called the iguana. The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area; it is native from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far north as Mexico.
Ctenosaura is a lizard genus commonly known as spinytail iguanas or ctenosaurs. The genus is part of the large lizard family Iguanidae and is native to Mexico and Central America . The name is derived from two Greek words: κτενός ( ctenos ), meaning "comb" (referring to the comblike spines on the lizard's back and tail), and σαύρα ...
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Guerreran spiny-tailed Iguana, [1] broad-ringed spiny-tailed iguana [9]: 144 p. among other common names . The taxonomic status, relationships, and validity of a number of spiny-tailed iguana, particularly Ctenosaura acanthura , C. pectinata , and C. similis have an extensive history of confusion in both scientific and popular literature.
Florida's iguana invasion. The green iguana, the Mexican iguana, and the spinytail iguana were originally brought to South Florida from Central and South America.