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Green Iguana or Common Iguana

Iguana iguana

Photo by JenniferRoge
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Description:

The green iguana I very common to see in Florida and are consider a invasive species. The native range of the Green Iguana extends from southern Mexico to central Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia and the Caribbean; specifically Grenada, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Útila.
This guy is about 2' to 2 1/2', this is half to what a full grown green iguana(4.9ft).

Habitat:

I found this iguana in Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden by one of their ponds.

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Green Iguana

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