Lesser Antillean Iguana Iguana delicatissima

The Lesser Antillean Iguana is a large arboreal iguana native to the Lesser Antilles. It has a group of bony protusions on its scaly head like a clump of hair. Males are charcoal grey or mid brown with an ivory-coloured head. Females have a greenish body with a yellowish ivory head. Juveniles are green and live in low shrub and bush whereas adults are usually higher in trees.

Large males can be 1.2 metres long of which two-thirds is tail. Diet is vegetarian and they are important seed dispersers. They are critically endangered on all islands they inhabit by habitat loss/degradation, illegal hunting for meat, introduced feral predators and by interbreeding with introduced Green/Common Iguanas.