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RE: Ctenosaura definitely, similis maybe

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Posted by: blues_lover at Mon Jan 15 03:12:38 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by blues_lover ]  
   

Ctenosaura usually react strongly to insects. As for keeping them with other species, they are kind of odd. I've had no problems with them being in the same enclosure with other lizards (although in the wild they are reputed to eat other lizards) but they have to be watched with members of their own genus as they like to endlessly try asserting dominance and are territorial.

As to whether or not it is similis, in similis the base of the tail is roughly cylindrical, the dorsal crest is continuous from nape of the neck onto the tail (other species show a 'break' at the hip/tail junction), and the first ten whorls(rings) of spiny scales on the tail are separated from one another by two or more rows of smaller scales dorsally and laterally.


   

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