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Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis The generic name ("Cyclura") is derived from the Ancient Greek "cyclos" (κύκλος) meaning "circular" and "ourá" (οὐρά) meaning "tail", after the thick-ringed tail characteristic of all "Cyclura". Its specific name, "cornuta", is the feminine form of the Latin adjective "cornutus", meaning "horned" and refers to the horned projections on the snouts of males of the species. The species was first described by American herpetologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1885.
Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis In 1999, Dr Robert Powell wrote that, based on these prior studies, this animal should be elevated to full species status, distinct from "C. cornuta".
Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis The Navassa Island iguana ("Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis") was a subspecies of rhinoceros iguana that was found on the Caribbean island of Navassa. It is "undoubtedly" extinct.
Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis In 1885, Cope first described the lizard as two species in the same paper: "C. onchiopsis" and "C. nigerrima", due to the animal's almost black coloration. A year later he renamed it as "C. onchiopsis". Herpetologists Albert Schwartz and Richard Thomas officially reclassified it as a subspecies of "C. cornuta" 90 years later, based on the writings of Thomas Barbour and Robert Mertens, yet presented numerous data relating to scale count that suggested otherwise. In 1977, Schwartz and Carey wrote “It is even conceivable that "onchiopsis" should be considered a species distinct from "C. cornuta" on the basis of this single character (distinctly smaller dorsolateral scales) (plus perhaps other modalities), but to do so would obscure its obvious affinities with the latter species.”
Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis These lizards varied in length from , with skin colors ranging from a steely gray to a dark green and even brown, and possessed a bony-plated pseudo-horn or outgrowth which resembled the horn of a rhinoceros.