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desert iguana
The desert iguana (''Dipsosaurus dorsalis'') is one of the most common lizards of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. They also occur on several Gulf of California islands. Their color is mostly grey and tan.
==Taxonomy==
The species was first described in the ''Catalog of North American Reptiles'', by Spencer Fullerton Baird and Charles Frédéric Girard, in 1859 as ''Crotaphytus dorsalis'' it was reclassified two years later as ''Dipsosaurus dofus dorsalis'' by Edward Hallowell.〔Baird, S. F. and Girard, C. (1852). ''Characteristics of some new reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, part 2''. Proceedings at the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia. 6: 125-129〕 The generic name comes from a combination of two Greek words meaning "hungry lizard": "Dipsa" (δίψα) for "thirsty", and "sauros" (σαῦρος) for "lizard". The specific name, "dorsalis", comes from the Latin word ''dorsum'' meaning "spike", in reference to a row of enlarged keeled scales on the middle of the lizard's back which form a crest that extends almost to the tip of its vent. ''Dipsosaurus'' is a monotypic genus with ''D. dorsalis'' being its only recognized species.
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