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CITES II
Cordylidae

Dwarf Sungazer

Cordylus tropidosternum

Traceable. The figures above appear in the page we cite, which we opened on 10 Aug 2026. That means you can check them, not that we have confirmed they are right. thetyedyediguana.com

Photograph: Marius Burger · CC0

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

CITES II is a global listing and holds in every country. National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.

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warm end35 °C
cool end21 °C
Humidity40 %

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
21°Cool side
35°Warm side

A real gradient, 35°C warm against 21°C cool, so the animal chooses. The sheet states no separate night figure.

Why

Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet stateswarm 35 °C / cool 21 °C

Humidity

40%Target RH

The sheet statesHumidity levels should be between 40% - 60%.

Identity

Family / Order
Cordylidae / Squamata
Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
warm 35 °C / cool 21 °C

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 35 °C / cool 21 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 35 °C / cool 21 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 35 °C / cool 21 °C
A hygrometerbecause humidity — Humidity levels should be between 40% - 60%.
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet states no size

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

thetyedyediguana.com — lu le 2026-08-09GBIF distribution (checklist range) — read 2026-08-09

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What this sheet states

62%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: enclosure size audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.