Guatemalan helmeted basilisk
Guatemalan helmeted basilisk | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Corytophanidae |
Genus: | Corytophanes |
Species: | C. percarinatus
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Binomial name | |
Corytophanes percarinatus A.H.A. Duméril, 1856[2]
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The Guatemalan helmeted basilisk (Corytophanes percarinatus) is a species of lizard in the family Corytophanidae.
Geographic range[]
C. percarinatus is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and southern Mexico (Chiapas).[2]
Common names[]
Other common names for C. percarinatus include keeled helmeted basilisk, keeled helmeted iguana, and turipache de hojarasca in Spanish.[2]
References[]
- ^ Ariano-Sánchez, D., Campbell, J. & Muñoz-Alons, A. (2013). "Corytophanes percarinatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2014.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Corytophanes percarinatus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading[]
- Duméril AHA (1856). "Description des reptiles nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus de la collection du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle et remarques sur la classification et les caractères des reptiles ". Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 8: 437-588. (Corytophanes percarinatus, new species, pp. 518–521). (in French).
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Corytophanes
- Reptiles of Guatemala
- Fauna of Southern Mexico
- Reptiles of Mexico
- Reptiles described in 1856
- Taxa named by Auguste Duméril