Critically Endangered
Nuñez' Tree Iguana
Liolaemus curis
Nuñez' Tree Iguana is an iguanian lizard in the family Liolaemidae — Liolaemus curis, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Chile.
The iguanian lizard
It was first described by Rayner Núñez Aguila ug Labra in 1985.
Liolaemid lizards are South American iguanians of rock, sand, and scrub. Many are live-bearing at altitude.
Range and habitat
Nuñez' Tree Iguana is recorded from Chile.
GBIF currently lists 4 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Nuñez' Tree Iguana 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 Nuñez' Tree Iguana — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3727544 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.
