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Conolophus subcristatus
Galapagos Land Iguana, in Isabela Island. The Galapagos Land Iguana is a Threatened specie qualified as "vulnerable" by the UICN Red List. According to Wikipedia : "Beginning in the early 1990s the Galapagos land iguana has been the subject of an active reintroduction campaign on Baltra Island. These animals became extinct on Baltra by 1954, allegedly wiped out by soldiers stationed there who shot the iguanas for amusement. However, in the early 1930s, William Randolph Hearst had translocated a population of land iguanas from Baltra to North Seymour Island, a smaller island just a few hundred metres north of Baltra because he could not understand why no iguanas were present there. Hearst's translocated iguanas survived, and became the breeding stock for the Charles Darwin Research Station captive breeding program which has successfully reintroduced the species to Baltra and a number of other areas."
Isabela dry forest
Spotted on Jan 12, 2000
Submitted on Apr 22, 2013
2 Comments
Thank you S Frazier. This is a very special Iguana from the Galapagos Islands categorized as "Threatened" and "Vulnerable" by the UICN Red List.
Since you have already identified this in your description "Galapagos Land Iguana" why not complete your spotting's ID by putting that in the common name. A quick google tells me it's Conolophus subcristatus for the scientific name. If that looks correct to you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galapagos_l... please fill in the scientific name too. You can also use this link for a reference link in your spotting.