sczlogover.gif (3787 bytes)

© Sedgwick County Zoo, credit: Unknown

Rhinoceros Iguana

Cyclura cornuta cornuta

Physical Characteristics

  • These large, heavy bodied lizards are dusky-grey or olive-green with dark cross bands that are often barely visible. There are three horny bumps on the snout which are more pronounced in males.
  • Size of average adult
    • length: 2 feet (snout to vent)

Diet

  • Wild: plant and animal material

Behavior

  • Diurnal (active during the day)
  • Bask in the sun
  • Reproduction
    • breeding season: April
    • female digs a nest cavity in the sand and lays as many as 16 eggs

Environmental/Global

  • Habitat: dry country with thorn bushes and thickets of cactus
  • Distribution: Lesser Antillean island of Haiti
  • Numbers: no estimates of wild populations available
  • Status: CITES Appendix I
    • habitat destruction
    • introduced predators: mongoose, pigs, dogs

Conservation Efforts

  • AZA Lizard Taxon Advisory Group has undertaken an in-situ conservation program for the closely related and highly endangered Jamaican iguana, Cyclura cornuta

Click here to visit the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA). Click here to visit Sedgwick County, Kansas. COPYRIGHT 2004 Sedgwick County Zoo all rights reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording means or otherwise without prior written permission of the photographer or author. Unless marked otherwise, materials are from the Sedgwick County Zoo. Sedgwick County Zoo is accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA).