Gold tegu

Gold tegu
on Trinidad
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Teiidae
Genus: Tupinambis
Species:
T. teguixin
Binomial name
Tupinambis teguixin
Synonyms[2]

Teius teguexim (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tupinambis nigropunctatus (Spix, 1825) Lacerta teguexim (Linnaeus, 1758)

The gold tegu, also known as the golden tegu, common tegu, black tegu, Colombian black and white tegu and tiger lizard (in Trinidad),[3] is a species of tegu.

  1. ^ "Appendices". CITES (cites.org). Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  2. ^ Tupinambis teguixin at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 15 May 2014.
  3. ^ "Wild herps - common tegu (Tupinambis teguixin)". Wildherps.com.