#1618 · 🦎 reptiles

Black Spiny-tailed Iguana

🇳🇱 Witzwarte grondleguaan ·Ctenosaura similis

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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8. © Andy Jones · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Ctenosaura similis , commonly known as the black spiny-tailed iguana , black iguana , or black ctenosaur , is a lizard native to Mexico and Central America that has been introduced to the United States in the state of Florida. It is the largest species in the genus Ctenosaura and has been recorded as the fastest-running species of lizard.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 52,917iNaturalist 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.
52,917 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1831 (195 years ago).