Enyalioides laticeps: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Hoplocercidae
- Genus
- Enyalioides
- Species
- Enyalioides laticeps
- Scientific Name
- Enyalioides laticeps
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Enyalioides laticeps
Enyalioides laticeps, the Amazon broad-headed wood lizard, is a dwarf iguanian lizard abundantly found in Amazonian rainforests. They are semi-arboreal and mostly live in forests. Other names for it include broad-headed wood lizards, Big-headed stick lizards (lagartijas de palo de cabezonas), Guichenot's Dwarf Iguana, Amazon Forest Dragon, or Amazon Dwarf-Iguana (Iguana enana amazónica).
It is a small, ornamented lizard that grows up to 157 mm (0.5 ft) long and have very high vertebral crests along their backs. They change colors based on environmental factors. Amazon broad-headed wood lizards rely on rapid running to move around; however, they spend the vast majority of their time motionless, blending into the rainforest background (branches, palm fronds), and ambushing prey. When attacked by predators, E. laticeps may stay motionless like a wood stick to avoid predation. When found by predators, it may suddenly spring into motion, quickly reatreting to burrows in the ground.
...Enyalioides laticeps in languages:
- English
- Broad-headed Woodlizard
- English
- Guichenot's Dwarf Iguana
- English
- Amazon Forest Dragon
- English
- Amazon Wood Lizard
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Enyalioides altotambo
- Enyalioides anisolepis
- Enyalioides azulae
- Enyalioides binzayedi
- Enyalioides cofanorum
- Enyalioides feiruzae
- Enyalioides heterolepis
- Enyalioides laticeps
- Enyalioides microlepis
- Enyalioides oshaughnessyi
- Enyalioides palpebralis
- Enyalioides praestabilis
- Enyalioides rubrigularis
- Enyalioides rudolfarndti
- Enyalioides sophiarothschildae
- Enyalioides touzeti

















































































































































