Eastern casquehead iguana

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Eastern casquehead iguana
Laemanctus longipes

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Corytophanidae
Genus: Laemanctus
Species:
L. longipes
Binomial name
Laemanctus longipes

The eastern casquehead iguana (Laemanctus longipes) is a species of lizard in the family Corytophanidae. The species is native to Mexico and Central America.

Geographic range

L. longipes is found in the southern Mexican states of

Yucatán, and in the Central American countries of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.[2]

Description

Long and thin, L. longipes can reach 70 cm (27.5 in) in total length, two-thirds of which is a thin tail.[citation needed]

The scales on the forehead are much larger than those on the back of the head. No projecting triangular scales occur on the posterior border of the head. The

gular scales are bicarinate or tricarinate.[3]

hemipenes are sometimes visible when lifting the tail gently.[citation needed
]

Subspecies

Habitat

The eastern casquehead iguana inhabits tropical wet, moist, and seasonally dry forests. It can persist in secondary growth when suitable trees are present.[1]

Behavior

The eastern casquehead iguana is an

arboreal species occurring high up in the trees.[1] Rather slow, it sits on trees and bushes above water courses, licking water drops on leaves, and catching insects that walk nearby. L. longipes lives individually, or in a territory with one male and one to three females. Usually, however, males and females only meet for mating, which can happen several times per year.[citation needed
]

Reproduction

L. longipes is oviparous.[2]

Subspecies

Two

nominotypical subspecies.[2]

Etymology

The subspecific name, deborrei, is in honor of Belgian entomologist Alfred Preudhomme de Borre (1833–1905).[4][5]

Captivity

L. l. longipes
A female L. longipes digging a burrow near the Mayan ruins of El Mirador, Guatemala, possibly for use as a nesting site.

The eastern casquehead iguana is sometimes bred in

UVB lighting and an additional vitamin and calcium feed once a week.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T197492A2490065.en
    . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Laemanctus longipes at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 April 2015.
  3. ^ Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Læmanctus longipes, pp. 105-106).
  4. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
    . (Laemanctus longipes deborrei, p. 67).
  5. ^ "Alfred Preudhomme de Borre 1833-1905". Scarab Workers World Directory. www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology//workers/APreudhomme.htm

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1877). "Étude monographique du genre Læmanctus et description d'une espèce nouvelle ". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 2: 460-466 + Plate VII. ("Læmanctus de Borrei ", new species, pp. 465–466 + Plate VII, figures 1, 1a, 1b). (in French).
  • McCoy CJ (1968). "A review of the genus Laemanctus (Reptilia, Iguanidae)". Copeia 1968 (4): 665–678.
  • Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu Descriptio Amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae Itineribus Comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Berolinense Pervenerunt. Pars Prima, Saurorum Species Amplectens. Adiecto Systematis Saurorum Prodromo, Additisque Multis in hunc Amphibiorum Ordinem Observationibus. Berlin: C.G. Lüderitz. vi + 54 pp. + Plates I-X. (Laemanctus longipes, new species, pp. 46–47 + Plate IV). (in Latin).


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