Sonoran Spiny-tailed Iguana
Ctenosaura macrolopha
Smith, 1972
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Native to Mexico. A population of Ctenosaura established at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Arizona contains mitochondrial DNA from the Sonoran Spiny-tailed Iguana, but it remains uncertain whether this represents a pure population of this species or a hybrid swarm with the C. conspicuosa (Edwards et al., 2005, Sonoran Herpetologist 18: 122–125). Not listed in Meshaka et al. (2022, Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida.)
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2024.07.02.08.03.39)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1972
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Smith, Hobart M. The sonoran subspecies of the lizard Ctenosaura hemilopha. Great Basin Naturalist 32(2):104-111
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2017
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Bezy, Robert L., Philip C. Rosen, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Erik F. Enderson. Southern distributional limits of the Sonoran Desert herpetofauna
along the mainland coast of northwestern Mexico Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(1):138-167
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