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Iguana delicatissima LAURENTI, 1768

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Higher TaxaIguanidae, Iguania, Sauria (lizards) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: West Indian Iguana, Lesser Antillean Iguana
G: Karibischer Grüner Leguan 
SynonymIguana delicatissima LAURENTI 1768: 48
Iguana nudicollis MERREM 1820 (nom. substit.)
Amblyrhynchus delicatissima - WAGLER 1830: 148
Iguana Nudicollis — CUVIER 1831: 133
Iguana nudicollis — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 208
Iguana delicatissima - BOULENGER 1885: 191
Iguana delicatissima — LAZELL 1973: 18
Iguana delicatissima — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 418 
DistributionLesser Antilles: Anguilla, St. Martin, Ile Fourchue, Les Iles Fregates,
Ile Chevreau, St. Barthelemy, St. Eustatius, Nevis, Antigua,
Guadeloupe, La Desirade, Ile des Saintes, Dominica, Martinique, Barbuda,
St. Kitts

Type locality: Indiis Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
TypesHolotype: Zool. Mus. Torino, not located 
CommentFor illustrations see Lazell, 1973; Wijffels, 1976.

Etymology: The Latin adjectives delicatus, "delightful," and the superlative -issimus, "very," are the roots of this name.

Reproduction: oviparous. 
References
  • Alberts, A.C.; Carter, R.L.; Hayes, W.K. & Martins, E.P. (eds.) 2004. Iguanas - Biology and Conservation. University of California Press, 356 pp.
  • Avery, D. F.;Tanner, W. W. 1971. Evolution of the iguanine lizards (Sauria, Iguanidae) as determined by osteological and myological characters Brigham Young University Science Bulletin 12 (3): 1-79
  • Barbour, Thomas 1923. West Indian investigations of 1922 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (132): 1-9
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
  • Conrad, J.L. & Norell, M.A. 2010. Cranial Autapomorphies in Two Species of Iguana (Iguanidae: Squamata). Journal of Herpetology 44 (2): 307–312 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1886. On the species of Iguaninae. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 23 (122): 261-271
  • Cuvier, G. 1831. The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, ... with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith... and others. Vol. 9. Whittaker, Treacher and Co., London, 481 pp.
  • Daltry, Jennifer C. 2007. An introduction to the herpetofauna of Antigua, Barbuda and Redonda, with some conservation recommendations. Applied Herpetology 4 (2): 97-130.
  • Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1837. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol. 4. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 570 pp. - get paper here
  • Laurenti, J. N. 1768. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austracorum, quod authoritate et consensu. Vienna, Joan. Thomae, 217 pp.
  • Lazell, James D., Jr 1973. The lizard genus Iguana in the Lesser Antilles. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 145 (1): 1-28 - get paper here
  • Malhotra, Anita; Thorpe, Roger S.; Hypolite, Eric; James, Arlington. 2007. A report on the status of the herpetofauna of the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies. Applied Herpetology 4 (2):177-194
  • Merrem, B. 1820. Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien I (Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum). J. C. Kriegeri, Marburg, 191 pp.
  • Schardt, M. 2003. Morphologie und Färbung des Karibischen Grünen Leguans (Iguana delicatissima). Reptilia (Münster) 8 (44): 47-49 - get paper here
  • Schardt, M.; Mutschmann, F. & Werning, H. 2009. Grüne Leguane, 2. Aufl. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 312 pp. - get paper here
  • Wagler, Jean G. 1830. Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugetiere und Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. 1.0. Cotta, München, Stuttgart, and Tübingen, 354 pp.
  • Wiens, J. J., and B. D. Hollingsworth 2000. War of the iguanas: conflicting molecular and morphological phylogenies and long-branch attraction in iguanid lizards. Systematic Biology 49:143–159
  • Wijffels, L.C.M. 1976. De Antillenleguaan. Lacerta 34 (11):135-136. - get paper here
 
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