Cuban rock iguana
cyclura nubila latin

Cuban rock iguana (Cyclura nubila)

These include Red Brockets, Red-footed Tortoises, Patagonian Maras, Cuban Rock Iguanas, and numerous caged tropical birds.

Cyclura nubila, also known as the Cuban rock iguana, Cuban ground iguana, or Cuban iguana, is a species of lizard of the iguana family.

They maintained that this lizard was a subspecies of Cyclura nubila nubila commonly known as the Cuban rock iguana(the species from which it evolved and can breed with if placed together under artificial conditions).

Its specific name, nubila, is Latin for "gray" but in this instance is a Latinized form of the name of John Edward Gray, the British zoologist who first described the Cuban rock iguana as a species in 1831 as opposed to the animal's base color.

Cuban rock iguana (Cyclura nubila)

The Yellow-Striped Pygmy Eleuth (Eleutherodactylus limbatus) is a species of frog endemic to this ecoregion, while several Anolis species and the Cuban Rock Iguana (Cyclura nubila nubila) are endemic lizards.

The Lesser Caymans iguana or Cayman Brac iguana or Cayman Island brown iguana or Sister Isles iguana (Cyclura nubila caymanensis) is a critically endangered subspecies of the Cuban iguana (Cyclura nubila).