Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Wish-willy ORDER - SAURIA FAMILY - Iguanidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Ctenosaura similis SYNONYMS - Iguana (Ctenosaura) similis Gray, 1831 and Centosaura similis similis, Gray REFERENCES - 5 and 1 District Reference Corozal, Belize 1 Orange Walk, Belize 1 Belize, Belize 1 Cayo, Belize 1 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Half Moon Caye Natural Monument Government land 1 Shipstern Nature Reserve 1 Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve 1 Caye Caulker 1 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 1 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (Private 1 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 1 Turneffe Reef Wet season 3 Half Moon Caye Natural Monument Captured or Mist net Wet season 4 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 1 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 1 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 1 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 1 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 1 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 1 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 1 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 1 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 1 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 87 30' to 87 45' 3 17 15' to 17 30'; 87 45' to 88 00' 1 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Marine 4 References 1 Meerman, J., 1994. Summary of Herpetofauna Distributions in Belize. Report to National Protected Areas Management Project. 2 Neill, W.T. and R. Allen. 1962. Reptiles of the Cambridge expedition to British Honduras 1959-1960. Herpetologica 18(2):79-90. 3 Platt, S. G. 1994. Checklist of Fauna Recorded During Crocodile Surveys of Turneffe Atoll. Unpub. checklist. 4 Miller, C. M. 1995. Unpublished field notes, Half Moon Caye Natural Monument, 21-22 Oct. 5 Lee, Julian C. 1996. The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatán Peninsula. Comstock Publishing Associates. Ithaca, New York.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre
01/19/98