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title: "Westmexikanischer Schwarzleguan"
description: "Ctenosaura pectinata — Reptilien. Ctenosaura pectinata is a species of moderately large lizard in the family Iguanidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/western-spiny-tailed-iguana
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Westmexikanischer Schwarzleguan

> Ctenosaura pectinata — Reptilien. Ctenosaura pectinata is a species of moderately large lizard in the family Iguanidae.

- Scientific name: *Ctenosaura pectinata*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptilien)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 12254
- Wikidata: [Q276865](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276865)
- iNaturalist taxon: [35306](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/35306)

## Names

- en: Western Spiny-tailed Iguana
- de: Westmexikanischer Schwarzleguan
- es: Iguana mexicana de cola espinosa
- nl: Zwarte leguaan

## Countries with the most observations

MX (11556), US (40)

## Summary

Ctenosaura pectinata is a species of moderately large lizard in the family Iguanidae. The species is native to western Mexico.
The standardized English name is the western spiny-tailed iguana. However, an earlier edition of standardized names applied the name Mexican spinytailed iguana to Ctenosaura pectinata. Confoundedly the name Mexican spiny-tailed iguana was applied to Ctenosaura acanthura which was referred to as the northeastern spinytailed iguana in the earlier edition of standardized names. It has also been called simply the spiny-tailed iguana, black spiny-tailed iguana, Guerreran spiny-tailed Iguana, broad…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenosaura_pectinata

## Photo

![Westmexikanischer Schwarzleguan](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/western-spiny-tailed-iguana/medium.jpg)

Photo: Drew Baxter · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/358655757

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/western-spiny-tailed-iguana?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).