Guatemalan helmeted basilisk

The Guatemalan helmeted basilisk (Corytophanes percarinatus) is a species of lizard in the family Corytophanidae.

Guatemalan helmeted basilisk
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Corytophanidae
Genus: Corytophanes
Species:
C. percarinatus
Binomial name
Corytophanes percarinatus

Geographic range

C. percarinatus is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and southern Mexico (Chiapas).[1]

Common names

Other common names for C. percarinatus include keeled helmeted basilisk, keeled helmeted iguana, and turipache de hojarasca in Spanish.[1]

References

  1. "Corytophanes percarinatus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Duméril AHA (1856). "Description des reptiles nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus de la collection du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle et remarques sur la classification et les caractères des reptiles ". Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 8: 437-588. (Corytophanes percarinatus, new species, pp. 518–521). (in French).
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