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  • Reptiles include river crocodile Crocodylus acutus, green iguana Iguana iguana, Boa constrictor and Mexican spiny-tailed iguana Ctenosaura pectinata.

    Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008

  • I recently visited a project in my host town of San Ignacio, in the Cayo District, that is helping to educate and conserve Belize's largest lizard the green iguana Iguana iguana.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Scott Schmidt 2006

  • I recently visited a project in my host town of San Ignacio, in the Cayo District, that is helping to educate and conserve Belize's largest lizard the green iguana Iguana iguana.

    Iguana Project Scott Schmidt 2006

  • The Boca De Iguana is an inexpensive hotel, but again it is on the main road in town, is relatively clean but all of the amenities are marginal.

    La Manzanilla, Jalisco 2000

  • The Boca De Iguana is an inexpensive hotel, but again it is on the main road in town, is relatively clean but all of the amenities are marginal.

    La Manzanilla, Jalisco 2000

  • (SOUNDBITE) Matthew Stephenson, Managing Director of Christie's Russia, saying (English): The piece behind me is called the 'Iguana Brooch'.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • The Iguana is a reference to the incidents at the Iguana club.

    New South Wales Politics Zoe Brain 2008

  • The duo of singer-bassist Billy O'Neill and organist-singer Ig (aka Iguana) - assisted by utility players-have created a disarmingly emotional statement of 10 songs that explore the struggle and strife of day-to-day living.

    Tucson Weekly 2009

  • Sumichrast completed this information by telling the young naturalist that the iguana, which is allied to the lizards, is generally a yard in length; and that the female lays thirty to forty eggs, which are much esteemed by the native epicures; also that the green species -- _Iguana rhinolopha_ -- has a flat, thin tail, and swims much better than the black variety, the tail of which, being covered with spines, is not well adapted for progression through water.

    Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863

  • (It would seem that "Iguana," with its title and its familiar funk vamp, is a knowing nod to Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon.") ~ David R. Adler, AMG

    AvaxHome 2010

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