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Turks and Caicos Curlytail
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Turks and Caicos Curlytail

Leiocephalus psammodromus

Leiocephalus psammodromus, commonly known as the Turks & Caicos curlytail or Bastion Cay curlytail lizard , is a species of lizard in the family Leiocephalidae (curly-tailed lizard). It is native to Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean Sea. The species was assessed as vulnerable by the IUCN in 2015 due to a sharply declining population threatened by habitat loss and invasive species. 2008 surveys on South Caicos, Salt Cay, Cotton Cay, or Grand Turk, did...

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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 39326.