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Plumed Basilisk

Plumed Basilisk
Plumed Basilisk
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Plumed Basilisk

:Animalia
:Chordata
:Reptilia
:Squamata
:Sauria
:Corytophanidae
:Basiliscus
: 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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