Ctenosaura pectinata from the coast southwest Mexico
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Suborder:
Iguania
Family:
Iguanidae
Genus:
Ctenosaura
Species:
C. pectinata
Binomial name
Ctenosaura pectinata
(Wiegmann, 1834)
Synonyms[3]
Cyclura pectinata Wiegmann, 1834
Ctenosaura pectinata — Gray, 1845
Ctenosaura pectinata is a species of moderately large lizard in the family Iguanidae. The species is native to western Mexico.
The standardized English name is the western spiny-tailed iguana.[4]: 58–59 p. However, an earlier edition of standardized names applied the name Mexican spinytailed iguana to Ctenosaura pectinata.[5]: 46 p. Confoundedly the name Mexican spiny-tailed iguana was applied to Ctenosaura acanthura[4]: 58–59 p. which was referred to as the northeastern spinytailed iguana in the earlier edition of standardized names.[5]: 45–46 p. It has also been called simply the spiny-tailed iguana,[6]: 506 p. [7]: 216 p. black spiny-tailed iguana,[8]: 265 p. Guerreran spiny-tailed Iguana,[1]broad-ringed spiny-tailed iguana[9]: 144 p. among other common names.
The taxonomic status, relationships, and validity of a number of spiny-tailed iguana, particularly Ctenosaura acanthura, C. pectinata, and C. similis have an extensive history of confusion in both scientific and popular literature. The status and relationship of Ctenosaura acanthura and C. pectinata remains unstable (as of 2021) with some limited molecular evidence suggesting Ctenosaura acanthura is a synonym (the same species) of C. pectinata, while others recognize the two as allopathic, morphologically distinct species.[10][11][12][13] The common names Mexican spiny-tailed iguana and black spiny-tailed iguana (among many other common names) have been loosely and informally applied to all three species at various times.
^ abReynoso, V.H.; Vázquez-Cruz, M.; Rivera-Arroyo, R.C.; Zarza-Franco, E.; Grant, T.D. (2020). "Ctenosaura pectinata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T174478A1414553. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T174478A1414553.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^Species Ctenosaura pectinata at The Reptile Database
www.reptile-database.org.
^ abLiner, Ernest A., and Gustavo Casas-Andreu (2008). Standard Spanish, English and scientific names of the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico. Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 38: i-iv, 1-162.
^ abLiner, E.A. (1994). Scientific and common names for the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish. Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 23: i-iii, 1-113.
^Behler, J.L., and F.W. King (1979). National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 743 pp. ISBN 0-394-50824-6.
^Conant, R., and J.T. Collins (1998). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians, Eastern and Central North America. (3rd edition, expanded). Peterson Field Guide Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. xviii + 616 pp. ISBN 0-395-90452-8.
^Bartlett, Richard D. (1987). In Search of Reptiles and Amphibians. New York: E.J. Brill. xix + 363 pp. ISBN 0-916846-41-5.
^Garrett, Judith M., and David G. Barker (1987). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Texas. Austin: Texas Monthly Press. xi + 225 pp. ISBN 0-87719-068-2.
^Köhler, G., and B. Streit (1996). "Notes on the systematic status of the taxa acanthura, pectinata, and similis of the genus Ctenosaura (Reptilia: Sauria: Iguanidae)". Senckenbergiana biologica75 (1/2): 33-43.
^Malone, Catherine L., Víctor Hugo Reynoso, and Larry Buckley (2017). "Never judge an iguana by its spines: Systematics of the Yucatan spiny tailed iguana, Ctenosaura defensor (Cope, 1866)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution115: 27-39
^Zarza, Eugenia, Victor H. Reynoso, and Brent C. Emerson (2008). "Diversification in the northern neotropics: mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogeography of the iguana Ctenosaura pectinata and related species". Molecular Ecology17: 3259–3275
^The Reptile Database, Ctenosaura acanthura (SHAW, 1802), see Comments, (accessed 6 July 2021)
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