''Uracentron'' is a genus of
tropidurid lizards found in forests in northern
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
. It contains only two species, which are both
arboreal
Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally (scansorial), but others are exclusively arboreal. The hab ...
, have a relatively short spiny tail, and mainly
feed on ants.
[Avila-Pires (1995). ''Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata).'' Zoologische Verhandelingen 299(1): 1-706]
Species''Uracentron''
The Reptile Database
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Uracentron azureum'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – green thornytail iguana
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Uracentron flaviceps
''Uracentron flaviceps'', the tropical thornytail iguana or Amazon thornytail iguana is an elusive species of medium-sized arboreal lizard found in the tropical lowlands of the Amazon Rainforest. The species was described by French people, French ...
'' (Guichenot, 1855) – tropical thornytail iguana
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Uracentron
Lizard genera
Taxa named by Johann Jakob Kaup