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Higher TaxaIguanidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Guerreran Spiny-tailed Iguana, Western Spiny-tailed Iguana
S: Garrobo de Roca 
SynonymCyclura pectinata WIEGMANN 1834
Cyclura pectinata — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 221
Ctenosaura pectinata — GRAY 1845
Ctenosaura brevirostris COPE 1886: 268
Ctenosaura teres brachylopha COPE 1886
Ctenosaura brachylopha — BAILEY 1928: 22
Ctenosaura pectinata — BAILEY 1928: 24
Ctenosaura brevirostris — BAILEY 1928: 27
Ctenosaura parkeri BAILEY 1928: 29
Ctenosaura pectinata — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950
Ctenosaura pectinata — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 95
Ctenosaura pectinata — LINER 1994
Ctenosaura (Ctenosaura) pectinata — KÖHLER et al. 2000
Ctenosaura (Ctenosaura) pectinata — KÖHLER 2003
Ctenosaura pectinata — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015
Ctenosaura pectinata — ZARZA et al. 2019
Ctenosaura brachylopha — ZARZA et al. 2019
Ctenosaura pectinata — HEIMES 2022 
DistributionUSA (introduced to Florida and southern Texas)

W Mexico (from just north of Culiacan, Sinaloa, southward to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in SE Oaxaca, Isla de las Tres Marias, west of Nayarit, Durango, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Morelos, Chiapas, Guerrero, Puebla, México, Aguascalientes)

Type locality: Restricted to Colima, Colima.

brachylopha: Mexico (Nayarit, Sinaloa, N Jalisco); Type locality: Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 574, male
Syntypes: USNM 7180-7183 [brachylopha]
Holotype: USNM 18967 [parkeri]
Syntypes: USNM 24708-24709 [brevirostris] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (brachylopha): Bailey 1928: 22


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CommentDistribution: Erroneously reported from Guanajuato (SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 74). The species introduced to Florida may be in fact C. similis (see TOWNSEND et al. 2003).

Synonymy: Smith & Taylor (1950) lumped C. brachylopha, C. brevirostris and C. parkeri with C. pectinata and restricted the name C. acanthura for iguanas from the Gulf of Mexico area. Zarza et al. 2019 suggested to resurrect Ctenosaura brachylopha for the northern populations of C. pectinata, although it seems that they investigated only 4 specimens (or specimens from 4 localities), one of which (from further south) appeared to be a hybrid of brachylopha and pectinata. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin pectinata, provided with a comb. [“...Crista dorsali alta, pectiniformi...”]. 
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