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Plumed Basilisk - Definition

Plumed Basilisk
Plumed Basilisk
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Plumed Basilisk

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Sauria
Family:Corytophanidae
Genus:Basiliscus
Species: plumifrons
Binomial name
Basiliscus plumifrons
(Cope, 1876)

The plumed basilisk is a species of lizard native to Latin America. Its natural range covers a swath from Mexico to Ecuador.

Plumed basilisks eat insects, small mammals like rodents, and even some smaller species of lizards.

The females of this species will lay 5 to 15 eggs at a time. They lay these eggs in warm, damp sand or soil. They take about ten weeks to hatch.

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