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Helmeted Lizards
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Helmeted Lizards

Corytophanidae

Corytophanidae is a family of iguanian lizards, also called casquehead lizards or helmeted lizards, endemic to the New World. Nine species of casquehead lizards from three genera are recognized.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 11 known species

Basilisks

genusBasiliscus

Helmeted Basilisks

genusCorytophanes

Casquehead Iguanas

genusLaemanctus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 33113.