World Species : Corytophanes percarinatus (Keeled Helmeted Iguana, Keeled Helmeted Basilisk)

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Corytophanes percarinatus (Keeled Helmeted Iguana, Keeled Helmeted Basilisk)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Guatemalan helmeted basilisk (Corytophanes percarinatus) is a species of lizard in the family Corytophanidae found in Guatemala and southern Mexico.

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Attributes

Habitat Substrate ^[1]	Arboreal

Reproductive Mode ^[1]	Viviparous

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Central American Atlantic moist forests	Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American dry forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Central American montane forests	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American pine-oak forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Motagua Valley thornscrub	Guatemala	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Petén-Veracruz moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	Yes

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Meiri, 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

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

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