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Brachylophus vitiensis (Fiji Crested lguana; fiji crested iguana)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Fiji crested iguana or Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) is a critically endangered species of iguana native to some of the northwestern islands of the Fijiian archipelago, where it is found in dry forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Brachylophus vitiensis

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Brachylophus vitiensis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  345 grams
Birth Weight [2]  17.9 grams
Female Weight [3]  345 grams
Gestation [2]  8 months 16 days
Litter Size [2]  3
Reproductive Mode [4]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [3]  8 inches (20 cm)
Habitat Substrate [4]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Fiji tropical dry forests Fiji Oceania Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests  

Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) Sites

Name  Location   Map   Climate   Land Use 
Yadua Taba Island Fiji

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ducula pacifica (Pacific Imperial Pigeon)3
Myadestes obscurus (Omao)1
Vini australis (Blue-crowned Lory)1
Vini ultramarina (Ultramarine Lorikeet)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nesting ecology of the critically endangered Fijian Crested Iguana Brachylophus vitiensis in a Pacific tropical dry forest, SUZANNE F. MORRISON, PETER S. HARLOW and J. SCOTT KEOGH, PACIFIC CONSERVATION BIOLOGY Vol. 15: 135–147. 2009
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 5 Diet and habitat preferences of the Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) on Yadua Taba, Fiji: implications for conservation, Clare Morrison, Tamara Osborne, Peter S. Harlow, Nunia Thomas, Pita Biciloa and Jone Niukula, Australian Journal of Zoology 55(6) 341–350 (2008)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
AZE sites provided by Alliance for Zero Extinction (2010). 2010 AZE Update.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0