The word "iguana" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it any time you need to refer to the reptile, either simply in conversation or in a more formal setting like an article or paper. For example: "The iguana is a reptile native to Central and South America."
Duane senior showed me a video of some of his wildlife trips, on which he's filmed jaguars just feet away from his boat, giant otters playing in the river and even an anaconda, hanging from a tree and swallowing a boa constrictor, which itself was swallowing an iguana.
I understand that the iguana tails are very nice … '" Lainson was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1982 and in the same year was awarded an honorary fellowship at LSHTM, the school's most prestigious honour.
An iguana surveys the terrain of his new home at the base of a 20-foot (six-metre) waterfall an event easily overlooked when distracted by 2,000 moths and butterflies of 60 different colours, shapes and sizes.
The hot sun shone, the sea sparkled, the palm trees waved gently in the breeze, and the occasional giant iguana, protected in this part of Cuba, lumbered by.
Nicolas Cage, a film star, found he could not add developments to his refuge in the Bahamas, because an endangered iguana lived there; he has since sold up.
The Feds seized 47 Chanel purses and 43 other bags, 100 pieces of jewellery, including ruby and diamond necklaces, 68 pairs of shoes, a pair of silver-plated iguana figurines and a "Fabergé egg".
As for animals, local and well-adapted species could be used more extensively: the Indonesian babirusa pig thrives on vegetation high in cellulose and is therefore less dependent on grain; the green iguana is a traditional native food in the American tropics, and has low rearing costs.
The best-known species of iguana is the common, or green, iguana, which occurs from Mexico southward to Brazil.
Land reptiles include the iguana and the majá de Santa María (Epicrates angulifer), the largest of Cuba's snakes, none of which is venomous.
The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) of the Galápagos Islands dives into the sea for seaweed.
