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Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana
Ctenosaura pectinata (Wiegmann, 1834)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to Central America. It was introduced via the pet trade during the 1960s and is established in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida (Eggert, 1978, Florida Wildlife 31: 9–10.; Krysko et al., 2003, Florida Scientist 66: 141–146; Townsend et al., 2003, Herpetozoa 16: 67–72; Enge and Krysko, 2019, Ctenosaura pectinata. Pages 383–385 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida) and Texas (Smith and Kohler, 1977, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 80: 241; Locey et al., 2008, Herpetological Review 39: 328–349).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1834 Wiegmann, Arend Friedrich August. Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus Comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species. Amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem observationibus. [Herpetologia Mexicana, or a description of the amphibians of New Spain, which were included in the travels of Comte de Sack, Ferdinand Deppe, and Chr. Gil. Schiede arrived at the Zoological Museum in Berlin. The first part, the appearance of the sauri. Embracing With the addition of a system of prodromes of sauri, and with additions to many observations on this order of amphibians.] C. G. Lüderitz, Berolini. 54, plates I–X.pp.
1977 Smith, Hobart M. and Anthony J. Kohler. A survey of herpetological introductions in the United States and Canada. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 80(1/2):241-
2002 McCoid, Michael J. Geographic distribution. Ctenosaura pectinata. Herpetological Review 33(4):321
2003 Townsend, J. H., Kenneth L. Krysko, and Kevin M. Enge. The identity of spiny-tailed iguanas, Ctenosaura, introduced to Florida, USA (Squamata: Sauria: Iguanidae). Herpetozoa 16():67-72
2008 Locey, Kenneth J., Christopher J. Butler, and David L. Martin. Ctenosaura pectinata. Population status. Herpetological Review 39(3):328-349

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