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Iguana iguana (Common Green Iguana)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as common iguana or American iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana. It is native to Central, South America, and the Caribbean. Usually, this animal is simply called the iguana. The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area, from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far north as Mexico and the Caribbean Islands. They have been introduced from South America to Puerto Rico and are very common throughout the island, where they are colloquially known as "Gallina de palo" and considered an invasive species; in the United States feral populations also exist in South Florida (including the Florida Keys), Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
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Infraspecies

Iguana iguana iguana (Green iguana)
Iguana iguana insularis
Iguana iguana melanoderma
Iguana iguana sanctaluciae

Invasive Species

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Attributes

Egg Length [2]  1.535 inches (39 mm)
Egg Width [2]  1.024 inches (26 mm)
Gestation [2]  89 days
Litter Size [2]  35
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  20 years
Reproductive Mode [4]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  14 inches (35 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Temporary Pools, Coastal, Brackish Water
Adult Weight [2]  3.135 lbs (1.422 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  16 grams
Female Weight [2]  2.897 lbs (1.314 kg)
Male Weight [2]  3.373 lbs (1.53 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [2]  16.4 %
Diet [1]  Omnivore
Female Maturity [3]  4 years 6 months
Male Maturity [3]  4 years 6 months
Habitat Substrate [1]  Arboreal

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Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Eira barbara (Tayra)[6]
Galeocerdo cuvier (Tiger-shark)[7]
Herpetotheres cachinnans (Laughing Falcon)[8]
Leopardus pardalis (Ocelot)[9]

Consumers

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3de 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Optimal foraging of a herbivorous lizard, the green iguana in a seasonal environment, Wouter D. van Marken Lichtenbelt, Oecologia (1993) 95: 246-256
♦ 6Eira barbara, Steven J. Presley, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 636, pp. 1–6 (2000)
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8The reptile hunter’s menu: A review of the prey species of Laughing Falcons, Herpetotheres cachinnans (Aves: Falconiformes), Henrique Caldeira COSTA, Leonardo Esteves LOPES, Bráulio de Freitas MARÇAL and Giancarlo ZORZIN, NORTH-WESTERN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 10 (2) (2014)
♦ 9Leopardus pardalis, Julie L. Murray and Gregory L. Gardner, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 548, pp. 1-10 (1997)
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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