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CITES II
Iguanidae

Spiny-tailed iguana

Ctenosaura pectinataอิกัวน่าหางหนามเม็กซิโก

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. nahf.org

Photograph: Carlos Martínez · CC BY

14:00
Day

Drag the sun. The sheet states a night temperature, so the rail follows it.

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warm end41 °C
cool end24–29 °C
Spiny-tailed iguana (Ctenosaura pectinata), photographed in the wild
Photograph · Janitzio Pech Zúñiga · CC BY-SA

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.

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
24–29°Cool side
41°Warm side
21°Night

Day: a real gradient, 41°C warm against 24–29°C cool, so the animal chooses. Night: 21°C.

Why

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

The sheet stateswarm 41 °C / cool 24-29 °C / night 21 °C

UVB

T5 12%beneficial

The sheet statesYou can use strong 6500K LED or T5 HO fluorescent plant grow lights to span most of the enclosure.; Here are some recommended UVB lighting options for spiny-tailed iguanas: Arcadia Desert 12% Zoo Med Reptisun T5 HO 10.0 To ensure proper temperature regulation, you'll need to provide a basking air temperature of arou...

Identity

Family / Order
Iguanidae / Squamata
Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
warm 41 °C / cool 24–29 °C / night 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 41 °C / cool 24-29 °C / night 21 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 41 °C / cool 24-29 °C / night 21 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 41 °C / cool 24-29 °C / night 21 °C
A way to check the night figurebecause temp — warm 41 °C / cool 24-29 °C / night 21 °C
UVB 12-12%, stated as beneficial rather than requiredbecause uvb — You can use strong 6500K LED or T5 HO fluorescent plant grow lights to span most of the enclosure.; Here are some recommended UVB lighting options for spiny-tailed iguanas: Arcadia Desert 12% Zoo Med Reptisun T5 HO 10.0 To ensure proper temperature regulation, you'll need to provide a basking air temperature of arou...
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

nahf.org — lu le 2026-08-09GBIF distribution (checklist range) — read 2026-08-09

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What this sheet states

46%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 3 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: humidity instrument and audit, 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.