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Mexican spiny-tailed iguana baby

Ctenosaura pectinata

Photo by The MnMs
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Field Notes

Description:

Around 20 cm, including tail.
It is the mexican spiny-tailed iguana but a baby! I did not know they were so green when young.

Habitat:

At the top of one of the pyramids in Uxmal.

Reference Links:

Ctenosaura pectinata

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Comments (3)
The MnMs
Wow, I just found this is a baby from the Mexican iguana. I did not know they are so green as hatchlings :-)

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Mexico Horn of Plenty
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Yucatan Peninsula Biodiversity
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2011

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