Corytophanes

Corytophanes is a genus of Neotropical lizards, commonly called helmeted iguanas or basilisks, in the family Corytophanidae. The genus contains three arboreal species and resides in tropical forests.^[1]

Species

These species are recognized as being valid:^[2]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
File:Corytophanes Cristatus.jpg	Corytophanes cristatus (Merrem, 1820)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	helmeted iguana	Chiapas in southern Mexico to north-western Colombia
File:Corytophanes hernandesii.jpeg	Corytophanes hernandesii (Wiegmann, 1831)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".^[3]	Hernandez's helmeted basilisk	Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.
File:Corytophanes percarinatus 44897832.jpg	Corytophanes percarinatus A.H.A. Duméril, 1856Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	Guatemalan helmeted basilisk	El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and southern Mexico (Chiapas).

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Corytophanes.

↑ Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. Template:ISBN. ("Corythophanes [sic]", p. 291).
↑ Genus Corytophanes at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
↑ Wilson LD, McCranie JR (2002). "Update on the list of reptiles known from Honduras". Herpetological Review 33 (2): 90-94.
↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Corytophanes hernandesii, p. 122).

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