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Iguanas |
| Some 300 species exist
of iguanas and other kinds with great variety of forms
distributed in America, islands ecuatoriales and tropical,
Madagascar, Fidji and Tonga. The great one iguana green of the
Antillas measures 1 meter of length. The anolís changes of
Color as the camaleón. There is iguanas of the islands Galapagos
among the ones that counts him the iguana marine . |
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The
encyclopedic definition of the Iguana is:
Iguana,
common name of the largest copies of the family of the
Iguanas. These reptiles they are you known by its impressive
exhibitions and rituals of courtship and defense, in which they perform
movements raising the body and agitating the head with vigor of
Up to down. They live mainly in America and, out of the
Alone, western hemisphere in Madagascar and Fiji. The lizards of the
family of the iguanas they are similar to the lizards of Eurasia
except by their teeth, solidamente united al interior edge of the
Mandíbula and not in the external margin of the maxilar.
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iguanas they reach around 1,8 m of length, they have the body
crushed and a leathery row of thorns that goes since the neck
to the queue, which, long and powerful, is used to being slightly
Aplanada. The iguanas they have párpados, large tímpanos auditivos
External and purses or double chins in the throat. They have five fingers in
Each leg, that finish in sharp claws. Al contrary that the
Greater part of the lizards, the iguanas they are vegetarianas. Their
habitats they vary; some they are arborícolas, other aquatic and other
Terrestrial.
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iguana common or iguana green is abundant in all the America
tropical and lives in the trees, frequently in which
They grow together al water. The male one is of gray color with thorns
of red color palido, franjas black in the sides and
wide black bands that surround it the queue forming rings;
The female is of brown color almost always. So much the meat
as the eggs of this species very they are appreciated as
Food. The iguana rinoceronte or cornuda, a species
terrestrial that lives in Haiti and Puerto Rico, owes its name to
The three horns that exhibits in the front. Two species live
exclusivamenteen the islands Galapagos, one of them, the
iguana marine, is the unico marine lizard that lives in the
Beaches and dives in search of the algas of the ones that is fed.
To times, al varano it is called, erroneamente, iguana. |
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Cientific
Clasification : the iguanas they belong the family Iguanidos. The name
cientifico of the iguana common is Iguana iguana, that of the iguana
rinoceronte is Cyclura cornuta and that of the iguana marine
Amblyrhynchus cristatus.
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