Critically Endangered
Ctenosaura oaxacana
Ctenosaura oaxacana
Ctenosaura oaxacana is a lizard or snake in the family Iguanidae, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The lizard or snake
This named form is a lizard or snake. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
It is found in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Ctenosaura oaxacana is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Ctenosaura oaxacana — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q246196. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
