Definition of Family Iguanidae

1. Noun. New World lizards.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Iguanidae

family Hygrophoraceae
family Hylidae
family Hylobatidae
family Hymenophyllaceae
family Hypericaceae
family Hyperodontidae
family Hypocreaceae
family Hypodermatidae
family Hypoxidaceae
family Hystricidae
family Ibidiidae
family Ichneumonidae
family Ichthyosauridae
family Icteridae
family Iguania
family Iguanidae (current term)
family Iguanodontidae
family Indicatoridae
family Indriidae
family Ipidae
family Irenidae
family Iridaceae
family Isoetaceae
family Istiophoridae
family Isuridae
family Ixodidae
family Juglandaceae
family Juncaceae
family Juncaginaceae

Literary usage of Family Iguanidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1920)
"The Anolis carolinensis, or so-called Florida Chameleon, belongs to the family Iguanidae and is in no way related to the true chameleons. ..."

2. Studies Scientific & Social by Alfred Russel Wallace (1900)
"... and of lizards belonging to the peculiar American family Iguanidae, as well as of the beautiful green diurnal moths of the genus Urania, ..."

3. Introduction to Zoology: A Guide to the Study of Animals ; for the Use of by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1902)
"Besides Anolis we have various other lizards of the family Iguanidae. The horned toad of the Southwest, which has a broad, flattened body and long spines on ..."

4. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands by California Academy of Sciences (1912)
"The tortoises and the lizards of the family Iguanidae are yet to be studied along the same lines. ORIGIN AND RELATIONSHIP OF THE GALAPAGOS GECKOS Two genera ..."

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