Black spiny-tailed iguana have distinctive keeled scales on their long tails, which gives them their common name.

The black spiny-tailed iguana was first described by British zoologist John Edward Gray in 1831.

The black spiny-tailed iguana has been introduced to South Florida and reproduces in the wild in several feral populations.

Black spiny-tailed iguanas are excellent climbers, and prefer a rocky habitat with plenty of crevices to hide in, rocks to bask on, and nearby trees to climb.

On the south-eastern Florida coast, black spiny-tailed iguanas have been found on Key Biscayne, Hialeah, and in Broward County.

In some parts of Central America, the black spiny-tailed iguana is farmed alongside the green iguana as a food source and for export for the pet trade; see iguana meat.

Ctenosaura similis, commonly known as the black spiny-tailed iguana, black iguana, or black Ctenosaur, is a lizard native to Mexico and Central America that has been introduced to the United States in the state of Florida.

The black spiny-tailed iguana is native to Central America, and has the widest range of all Ctenosaura species from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to northeastern Nicaragua and western Panama on the respective Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

The island is home to a species of black iguana called "garrobo negro."

How does a black iguana respond when confronted with a wide-eyed researcher?

One of the earliest mines to open was the The Black Iguana.

The creature was moved to an enclosure at the Detroit Zoo which it will share with a female black iguana.

The island also houses several reptile species, including the black iguana (Ctenosaura similis) for which the island is named.

Throughout their range black iguanas are hunted for the pot; their meat not only tastes good, but is also reputed to cure impotency.

There is a black iguana that seems to be making a tortuous climb up one side of a zigzag-shaped pot by Elyse Saperstein.

Large lizards such as the Striped basilisk, Black iguana and Green iguana are probably the country's most regularly encountered reptiles.

Ecology and traditional use of the Guatemalan black iguana (Ctenosaura palearis) in the dry forests of the Motagua Valley, Guatemala.

There are coral snakes, green and black iguanas, scorpions, rattlesnakes, boa constrictors, milk snakes, thread snakes and chameleons.

In the coastal region there are armadillos, egrets, kingfishers, gulls, pelicans, gophers, green and black iguanas, crocodiles, bull frogs, toads and turtles.

Great Strides in Iguana Ranches The envisioned ranches would boast green iguanas munching in trees and black iguanas sunbathing on the ground.

The Green iguana and its relative the Black iguana (Ctenosaura similis) have been used as a food source in Central and South America for the past 7000 years.

Ctenosaura similis, commonly known as the black spiny-tailed iguana, black iguana, or black Ctenosaur, is a lizard native to Mexico and Central America that has been introduced to the United States in the state of Florida.

For black iguanas, at least, it seems that the eyes have it, according to Dr Joanna Burger of Rutgers University and colleagues, who studied these lizards in Guanacaste, in Costa Rica (Animal Behaviour, vol. 42, pp 471-6).

Large reptiles on the island include the Emerald Basilisk, Black ctenosaur, Green Iguana, and Spectacled Caiman.

Ctenosaura similis, commonly known as the black spiny-tailed iguana, black iguana, or black Ctenosaur, is a lizard native to Mexico and Central America that has been introduced to the United States in the state of Florida.

They have the world's fastest running lizard, the spiny-tailed iguana (Ctenosaura similis).

The island also houses several reptile species, including the black iguana (Ctenosaura similis) for which the island is named.

Costa Rica is a center of biological diversity for reptiles and amphibians, including the world's fastest running lizard, the spiny-tailed iguana (Ctenosaura similis).

The Green iguana and its relative the Black iguana (Ctenosaura similis) have been used as a food source in Central and South America for the past 7000 years.

A study is being conducted by the Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, to solve the over-exploitation problem and to determine if the iguanas can be successfully farmed as a food source similar to the Green Iguana and the closely related Ctenosaura similis.