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FIGURE 8 in A story of nasal horns: two new subspecies of Iguana Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata, Iguanidae) in Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, and Grenada (southern Lesser Antilles)
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FIGURE 8. Ontogenetic change in colour of Iguana iguana sanctaluciae. Young male (A), old male (B). Annotations: 1. Small subtympanic plate ± 10% of the eardrum. 2. Two or three scales of decreasing size anterior to subtympanic plate. 3. Low number of sublabial scales with black margins. 4. No swelling of the jowls in breeding males. 5. Lateral and median horns. 6. Median horns with enlarged bases. 7. Oval to rounded nostril. 8. Brown eye with the white of the eye visible. 9. Triangular gular spikes. 10. 7 gular spikes. 11. Dispersed nuchal tubercles. 12. Low number of nuchal tubercles. 13. Small size of nuchal tubercles. 14. Orange in first dorsal spikes in breeding animals. 15. Entirely black dewlap in old adults. 16. Body and tail black and bright green in young individuals and very light green to almost pale greenish grey in old adults. Old individuals may look nearly "black and white". The brilliant colouration of the young male results from the flash of the camera.
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Published as part of Breuil, Michel, Vuillaume, Barbara, Schikorski, David, Krauss, Ulrike, Morton, Matthew N., Haynes, Pius, Daltry, Jennifer C., Corry, Elizabeth, Gaymes, Glenroy, Gaymes, Joanne, Bech, Nicolas, Jelić, Mišel & Grandjean, Frédéric, 2019, A story of nasal horns: two new subspecies of Iguana Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata, Iguanidae) in Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, and Grenada (southern Lesser Antilles), pp. 201-232 in Zootaxa 4608 (2) on page 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4608.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3055184
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