#1676 · 🦎 reptiles

Western Spiny-tailed Iguana

🇳🇱 Zwarte leguaan ·Ctenosaura pectinata

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © jfpinonr · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Carlos Palomera · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Eber Barraza · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Janitzio Pech Zúñiga · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Diego Manzano Méndez · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Burócrata, Culiacán Rosales, Sin., México:© silvia mellado · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. La Entrega, México:© Esmeralda Amador Hernández · CC BY-ND 4.0
8. Estero El Yugo, Cerritos, Mazatlán, Sin., México:© Ricardo Arredondo T. · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Bolaños, Jal., México:© Josema · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. San Pablo Nte, 70650 Salina Cruz, Oax., México:© David Gustavo R Bonastre · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Ctenosaura pectinata , commonly known as the Mexican spiny-tailed iguana or the Mexican spinytail iguana , is a moderate-sized lizard endemic to western Mexico.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,415iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
12,415 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann in 1834 (192 years ago).