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Ctenosaura palearis (Honduran dwarf spiny-tailed iguana; Guatemalan Black Iguana)

Synonyms: Enyaliosaurus palearis

Wikipedia Abstract

Ctenosaura palearis, commonly known as the Guatemalan spiny-tailed iguana, is a species of spiny-tailed iguana endemic to the Motagua Valley, Guatemala.
View Wikipedia Record: Ctenosaura palearis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Ctenosaura palearis

Attributes

Gestation [1]  3 months 1 day
Litter Size [3]  9
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  10 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
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
Motagua Valley thornscrub Guatemala Neotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cayos Cochinos Archipelago National Park Natural Marine Monument   Honduras  

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Licania hypoleuca[3]
Pachycereus schumannii[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Archilochus colubris (Ruby-throated Hummingbird)1
Cynanthus latirostris (Broad-billed Hummingbird)1
Eugenes fulgens (Magnificent Hummingbird)1
Lampornis clemenciae (Blue-throated Mountaingem)1
Leucolia violiceps (Violet-crowned Hummingbird)1

Predators

Heloderma charlesbogerti (Guatemala Beaded Lizard)[3]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Meiri, 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
♦ 3Ecology and Traditional Use of the Guatemalan Black Iguana (Ctenosaura palearis) in the Dry Forests of the Motagua Valley, Guatemala, Paola Cotí and Daniel Ariano-Sánchez, IGUANA VOLUME 15, NUMBER 3, SEPTEMBER 2008 p. 142-149
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
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