Green iguana

Iguana iguana · Iguanidae

The green iguana, also known as the American iguana or the common green iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana. Usually, this animal is simply called the iguana. The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area; it is native from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far north as Mexico.

Where the Green iguana lives

Recorded in Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Panama, Ecuador and Curaçao (South America and North America).

Introduced, not native, in United States of America and Puerto Rico.

Most records fall in Florida, Antioquia, Limón, Heredia, Puntarenas and Alajuela.

See the Green iguana’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 79,387 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.