Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Figs 7.3 and 16 View Figure 7
Type locality.
“Indiis”, restricted by Hoogmoed (1973) to the confluence of the Cottica River and the Perica Creek, Suriname.
Distribution.
In the Caatinga it is registered in the states of Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe. It is widespread in the Caatinga and occurs along all ecoregions (Table 1 View Table 1 ; Appendix S3). Distributed in low to high elevation areas (5-919 m a.s.l.), with annual mean temperature 21 to 28°C, and average annual rainfall between 412 and 1,592 mm.
Ecological notes.
Arboreal and diurnal (Vanzolini et al. 1980). It occurs widely in the Caatinga, being found mainly in riparian forests (Vanzolini et al. 1980; Freitas and Silva 2007). Diet is based mainly on vegetables (leaves, shoots, flowers, fruits, and occasionally seeds) (Vanzolini et al. 1980; van Marken Lichtenbelt 1993; Kaplan 2014). Oviparous, on female the clutch size is varied in in different populations, in Pantanal the clutch size range is 12-19 eggs ( Campos 2004) and in Amazonia is 20-33 eggs ( Haller and Rodrigues 2005).
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