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The plumed basilisk's native range spans southern Mexico and northern Colombia. B. plumifrons inhabits hot, humid rainforests that contain streams, rivers or other water bodies. [3] [4] [5] The physical appearance of the plumed basilisk is striking: it sports a bright green color along its body with black and white streaks along its neck and back.
Basiliscus is a genus of large corytophanid lizards, commonly known as basilisks, which are endemic to southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.The genus contains four species, which are commonly known as the Jesus Christ lizard, or simply the Jesus lizard, due to their ability to run across water for significant distances before sinking due to the large surface area of ...
The name Pleurodonta was first used by paleontologist and herpetologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1864, although he used it in a different sense than it is used today. Because of this difference, the name Iguanoidea has been proposed as a replacement for Pleurodonta in phylogenetic nomenclature .
Genus Basiliscus (brown basilisk, common basilisk, plumed basilisk) [1] Genus Corytophanes ( helmeted iguana ) [ 1 ] Genus Laemanctus ( casquehead iguana ) [ 1 ]
Plumed basilisk; W. Western basilisk This page was last edited on 8 June 2021, at 17:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in cumin, Cuminum cyminum).
Basiliscus plumifrons Cope, 1875 — green basilisk, plumed basilisk; Basiliscus vittatus Wiegmann, 1828 — brown basilisk, striped basilisk; Corytophanes H. Boie in Schlegel, 1826: Corytophanes cristatus (Merrem, 1820) — helmeted iguana; Corytophanes hernandesii (Wiegmann, 1831) — Hernandez's helmeted basilisk