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Rhinoceros iguana1/3/2024 ![]() ![]() Pasachnik, Stesha Ann & Victor Martin-Velez 2017.Amphibien und Reptilien aus Santo Domingo, gesammelt von Prof. Phylogeography of the Caribbean Rock Iguana (Cyclura): implications for conservation and insights on the biogeographic history of the West Indies. THE NON-MARINE HERPETOFAUNA OF KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA. Definition of the Caribbean Islands biogeographic region, with checklist and recommendations for standardized common names of amphibians and reptiles. Hedges SB, Powell R, Henderson RW, Hanson S, and Murphy JC 2019.Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 11 (7): 215-222, 5 plates (2 in color) Observations on some rare Reptiles and a Batrachian now or lately living in the Society's Menagerie. Herpetologica 2: 139-140 - get paper here Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (709): 1-6 - get paper here Cyclura cornuta (Bonnaterre) Hispaniolan Rhinoceros Iguana. Herpetologische Beobachtungen auf der Halbinsel Barahona, Dominikanische Republik. Conservation and Management of Cyclura Iguanas in Puerto Rico. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Whittaker, Treacher and Co., London, 481 pp. with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith. The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier. The large iguanas of the Greater Antilles. A Checklist of the Iguanas of the World (Iguanidae Iguaninae). Stephen (Iguana Taxonomy Working Group, ITWG 2016. Iguanas of the world (Iguanidae Iguaninae). On the distinctive cranial characters of the Iguanoid lizards allied to Iguana. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). The Mona Island Iguana, Cyclura cornuta stejnegeri Barbour & Noble, 1916 Podarcis 1 (2): 33-35 - get paper here Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. A revision of the lizards of the genus Cyclura. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin 12 (3): 1-79 Evolution of the iguanine lizards (Sauria, Iguanidae) as determined by osteological and myological characters. Dorsum patternless, dark gray, grayish brown, to black juveniles very dark and virtually patternless but with about 9 vague and faint pale crossbars on sides, separated by dark gray areas (often series of gray blotches) extending onto venter hindlimbs not ocellate (Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 391).Ĭonservation: Cyclura onchiopsis COPE 1885 is “undoubtedly” extinct (POWELL 2000). Syntypes: USNM 9977, USNM 12239, MCZ 4717 ĭESCRIPTION: Size large (SVL in males to 463 mm, in females to 510 mm) 3-5 scales (frontal + 1 or 2 pairs of prefrontals) enlarged on snout 11-13 (mode 10) scale rows between frontal and interparietal azygous scales between prefrontals absent 8-17 (mode 13) scales between anterior canthal scales 13-29 (mode 18) scales bordering frontal first prefrontal never in contact with precanthal no obvious rows of loreals 10-16 (mode 12) suboculars to anterior border of tympanum 6-18 (mode 12) sublabials to eye center 3-6 (mode 4) rows of scales between infralabials and sublabials 1-4 (mode 3) postmentals 32-80 femoral pores in 1-3 (strongly modally 2) rows or partial rows dorsal crest scales 14-25 between occiput and shoulder, 40-56 between shoulder and sacrum, 12-23 between sacrum and first caudal verticil, total dorsal crest scales between occiput and first caudal verticil 70-97 dorsal crest scales on neck never higher than body crest scales, body crest scales almost never higher than postsacral crest scales 33-51 scales around tail in fifth caudal verticil 13-44 dorsolateral body scales in naris-eye distance rostral in contact with nasals or separated from them by 1-2 rows of scales 3-7 (mode 4) scale rows between prefrontal scales. Type locality: "from an unknown locality." Restricted type locality: "Island of Navassa" (Cope 1886). dans les mornes de l'hôpital, entre l'Artibonite & les Gonaïves. Hispaniola (Dominican Republic, Haiti), Isla Beata, Ile de la Petite Gonave, Ile de la Tortue, Ile Grande Cayemite, Ile de la Petite Cayemite, Isla Saona, Isla Cabritos, Navassa, Isla Mona, Puerto Rico (USA, Florida)Ĭornuta: Hispaniola and satellites. nud.)Ĭyclura cornuta onchiopsis - SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975Ĭyclura cornuta onchiopsis - SCHWARTZ & CAREY 1977Ĭyclura cornuta onchiopsis - LEMM & ALBERTS 2012 Metopoceros cornutus - BOULENGER 1885: 188Ĭyclura cornuta - SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 391Ĭyclura cornuta cornuta - SCHWARTZ & CAREY 1977Ĭ. ![]() Hypsilophus (Metapoceros) cornutus - FITZINGER 1843 Metopoceros cornutus - DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 211 Iguanidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)Ĭyclura cornuta cornuta (BONNATERRE 1789)Į: Rhinoceros Iguana, Hispaniolan Rhinoceros Iguana Find more photos by Google images search: ![]()
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