Ctenosaura acanthura, is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. The species is native to eastern Mexico and extreme western Guatemala. The standardized English name is the Mexican spiny-tailed iguana (Spanish: el garrobo del noreste). Confusingly however, an earlier edition of standardized names for Mexican herpetofauna called C. acanthura the northeastern spiny-tailed iguana and applied the name Mexican spiny-tailed iguana to Ctenosaura pectinata, which was called the western spiny-tailed iguana in the second edition. It has also been referred to as the Veracruz spiny-tailed iguana and Gulf Coast spiny-tailed iguana.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Eastern Mexican Spiny-Tailed Iguana being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Ctenosaura pectinata
- Ctenosaura oedirhina
- Ctenosaura bakeri
- Ctenosaura hemilopha
- Ctenosaura macrolopha
- Ctenosaura similis
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Iguanidae
- Genus
- Ctenosaura
- Species
- Ctenosaura acanthura
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