Amblyrhynchus cristatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pleurodonta
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Lacertilia Infraordo: Iguania Parvordo: Pleurodonta

Familia: Iguanidae
Genus: Amblyrhynchus
Species: Amblyrhynchus cristatus
Subspecies (11): A. c. cristatus – A. c. godzilla – A. c. hassi – A. c. hayampi – A. c. jeffreysi – A. c. mertensi – A. c. nanus – A. c. sielmanni – A. c. trillmichi – A. c. venustissimus – A. c. wikelskii

Name

Amblyrhynchus cristatus Bell, 1825: 206

Holotype: OUM 6176.
Type locality: “Mexico” (in error), corrected to “Narborough [=Fernandina]” by Eibl-Eibesfeldt (1956: 88).

Combinations

Iguana (Amblyrhynchus) cristatus — Gray, 1831: 37 [subsequent combination]
Hypsilophus (Amblyrhynchus) cristatus — Fitzinger, 1843: 55 [subsequent combination]
Oreocephalus cristatus — Gray, 1845: 189 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

Bell, T. 1825. On a new genus of Iguanidae. The Zoological Journal 2: 204–208. BHL
Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. 1956. Eine neue Rasse der Meerechse, Amblyrhynchus cristatus venustissimus, nebst einigen Bemerkungen uber Amblyrhynchus cristatus cristatus. Senckenbergiana Biologica 37: 87–100. Reference page.

Additional references

Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. 1962. Neue Unterarten der Meerechse, Amblyrhynchus cristatus, nebst weiteren Angaben zur Biologie der Art. Senckenbergiana Biologica 43: 177–199. Reference page.

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Miralles, A., MacLeod, A., Rodríguez, A., Ibáñez, A., Jiménez-Uzcategui, G., Quezada, G., Vences, M. & Steinfartz, S. 2017. Shedding light on the imps of darkness: an integrative taxonomic revision of the Galápagos Marine Iguanas (genus Amblyrhynchus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181(3): 678–710. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx007 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2025. Amblyrhynchus cristatus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 19 March 2021.
MacLeod, A., Nelson, K.N. & Grant, T.D. 2020. IUCN: Amblyrhynchus cristatus (Vulnerable) (errata version published in 2020). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T1086A177552193. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T1086A177552193.en
Amblyrhynchus cristatus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

беларуская: Марская яшчарка
Deutsch: Meerechse
English: Marine Iguana
日本語: ウミイグアナ
polski: Legwan morski
português: Iguana-marinha
ไทย: อีกัวนาทะเล
中文: 海鬣蜥