Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Leiocephalidae > Leiocephalus > Leiocephalus carinatus

Leiocephalus carinatus (Northern Curly-tailed Lizard; Northern curlytail lizard)

Synonyms: Holotropis microlophus (heterotypic); Leiocephalus macleayii

Wikipedia Abstract

Leiocephalus carinatus, commonly known as the northern curly-tailed lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Leiocephalidae (curly-tailed lizards).
View Wikipedia Record: Leiocephalus carinatus

Infraspecies

Leiocephalus carinatus aquarius
Leiocephalus carinatus armouri (Bahaman curly-tailed lizard)
Leiocephalus carinatus carinatus (Casque-headed lizard)
Leiocephalus carinatus cayensis
Leiocephalus carinatus coryi
Leiocephalus carinatus granti
Leiocephalus carinatus hodsdoni
Leiocephalus carinatus hodsoni
Leiocephalus carinatus labrossytus
Leiocephalus carinatus microcyon
Leiocephalus carinatus mogotensis
Leiocephalus carinatus virescens
Leiocephalus carinatus zayasi

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  30 grams
Gestation [1]  63 days
Litter Size [1]  8
Maximum Longevity [3]  11 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  5 inches (13 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ciénaga de Zapata National Park 1606900 Cuba  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Atractis scelopori[4]
Oswaldocruzia lenteixeirai <Unverified Name>[4]
Physaloptera obtusissima[4]
Spauligodon cubensis[4]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 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
♦ 4Gibson, 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