Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura pectinata)
Created: January 17th, 2008 - 11:56 AM
Last Modified: December 20th, 2010 - 12:36 PM Entered by: Joe Burgess
Record 8127
Last Modified: December 20th, 2010 - 12:36 PM Entered by: Joe Burgess
Record 8127
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Country: United States |
State: Florida |
County: Miami-Dade County |
Time: 2007-09-20 13:15:00 |
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Qty: 1 |
Age: Adult |
Sex: Male |
Method: Visual encounter |
Habitat: Disturbed – neighborhood |
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Body Temperature: ----- |
Air Temperature: 91.00F |
Ground Temperature: ----- |
Humidity: ----- |
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Sky Conditions: Partly Cloudy |
Moon Phase: ----- |
Elevation: 4.00ft |
Barometric Pressure: ----- |
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Comments
I think this might be Ctenosaura similis. There is apparently only one population of Ctenosaura pectinata in Florida and that population may have been eradicated by development as far as we could tell when we visited the site in 2005.
See http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology/kk/pdf/2003_Townsend_et_al-FL_Ctenosaura.pdf for a discussion.