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SpeciesIguanidae
Reptiles

🦎Green iguana

Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758)

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. It is highly invasive in many subtropical and tropical environments throughout the world.

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≈ 1/41st of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
1.53 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Green iguana

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.53 kgrecord 8.13 kg · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Maximum lifespan
20 yearsrecord 28 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Herbivorous
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
0.58 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.32 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
1.5 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Green iguana yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyIguanidae
  5. ›genusIguana
  6. ›speciesIguana iguana
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. suborderIguania
  3. subfamilyIguaninae
  4. genusIguana
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. suborderIguania
  12. subfamilyIguaninae
  13. genusIguana
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In other languages
Legwan zielony (pl), Iguana iguana (fr), איגואנה ירוקה (he), 녹색이구아나 (ko), Iguana iguana (es), Iguana iguana (it) … and 24 more languages

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