iguanas? liè xī?

Literally, it refers to lizards with spiny iguanas. There are not many species, and the most famous ones are naturally sea iguanas and land iguanas in Galapagos Islands. But for pet lizards, green iguanas are the most popular lizards. They are also the largest iguanas and the most widely kept. This is a great boon for people who like large lizards.

Appearance characteristics:

The back of iguanas is olive brown or gray or light brown black, which can change its color with the environment and light intensity, and usually has gray or light yellow spots with black edges and three intermittent longitudinal stripes. The cephalic corpuscles are laterally flattened; The dorsal scale is small, uniform in size, ridged, and the tip of the scale faces backward and upward; Squamous ellipse in throat area; The neck loop is continuous with the back loop, and the front loop scales are attached to the skin folds; The scales of male iguanas are longer than those of females, and are spear-shaped or sickle-shaped; The dorsal and caudal rays are slightly separated; Toothed comb-like scales on the toe side.

Population distribution:

Domestic distribution of iguanas: Guangdong (Guangzhou), Guangxi (Longzhou, Baise, Tiandeng, Daxin, Fangcheng and Ningming), Yunnan (Hekou)

Foreign distribution of iguanas: Vietnam and Thailand.