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Curly-tailed Lizards
Leiocephalidae
The curly-tailed lizards are a family, Leiocephalidae, of lizards which are widely distributed throughout much of the Caribbean, but are relatively unstudied. They were previously regarded as members of subfamily Leiocephalinae within the family Tropiduridae. There are presently 29 known species. Leiocephalus is the only genus in the family Leiocephalidae.
1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 24 known species
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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 145823.