WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Amblyrhynchus cristatus Bell, 1825

Amblyrhynchus cristatus Bell, 1825
AphiaID: 344019

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Reptilia (Class) > Sauria (Order) > Iguanidae (Family) > Amblyrhynchus (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Amblyrhynchus

Source

basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	marine iguana	[details]
Turkish	deniz iguanasi	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

Galapagos Islands [details]

Links

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (135 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (195 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Reptile Database
To ITIS

Note

Habitat: coastal [details]

Images

Marine iguana
added on 2011-01-07 - author: Debergh, Heidi
qualitystatus: checked by Uetz, Peter on 2013-02-16 16:13:41

Marine iguana
added on 2011-01-07 - author: Debergh, Heidi
qualitystatus: checked by Uetz, Peter on 2013-02-16 16:14:18

Marine iguana
added on 2011-01-07 - author: Debergh, Heidi
qualitystatus: checked by Uetz, Peter on 2013-02-16 16:14:29

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:344019

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2008-04-11 11:37:23Z	created	van der Land, Jacob
2009-07-01 09:53:39Z	checked	Uetz, Peter

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Citation: Uetz, P. (2013). Amblyrhynchus cristatus Bell, 1825. In: Uetz, P. (ed.) (2013) The Reptile Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=344019 on 2013-05-20

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