#1611 · 🦎 reptiles

Green Iguana

🇳🇱 Groene Leguaan ·Iguana iguana

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Rainer Hungershausen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Daniel Manzur · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Thomaz de Carvalho Callado · CC BY 4.0
5. © bob15noble · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Richard Stovall · CC BY 4.0
7. © humbertobonilla · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The green iguana ( Iguana iguana ), also known as the American iguana , is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana . It is native to Central, South America, and the Caribbean. Usually, this animal is simply called the iguana . The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area, from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far north as Mexico and the Caribbean Islands. They have been introduced from South America to Puerto Rico and...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 94,657iNaturalist 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.
94,657 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).