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Wishywilly

Ctenosaura oedirhina de Queiroz, 1987

Status not recordedlizards

The wishywilly (Ctenosaura oedirhina) is a species in the family Iguanidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh about 22.7 g and reach 19.3 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Honduras.

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Quick facts about the wishywilly

Weight
22.7 g
Length
19.3 cm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Herbivore
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forest
Egg incubation
83 days
Young per litter or clutch
7 – 8
Age at maturity
2 years
Reproduction
Eggs
Active
By day (diurnal)
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is the wishywilly?

WISHYWILLY · LENGTH 19.3 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 19.3 cm, the recorded maximum length of the wishywilly is about 11% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the wishywilly live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The wishywilly is listed for 1 country.

Honduras
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Honduras

Is the wishywilly endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the wishywilly classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyIguanidae
  6. genusCtenosaura
  7. SpeciesCtenosaura oedirhina de Queiroz, 1987
Other names and names in other languages (10)
  • De Queiroz's spiny-tailed iguanaEnglish
  • De Queiroz's spinytail iguanaEnglish
  • Roatan spiny-tailed iguanaEnglish
  • Roatán spiny-tailed iguanaEnglish
  • Roatan spinytail iguanaEnglish
  • Roatán spinytail iguanaEnglish
  • إغوانة رواتان شائكة الذيلArabic
  • Roatan-tornhaleleguanDanish
  • RoatanleguanGerman
  • GarroboSpanish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the wishywilly

Other species in the same genus Ctenosaura.

Swamper

Ctenosaura bakeri

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the wishywilly?

An adult wishywilly weighs 22.7 g and measures 19.3 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the wishywilly live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the wishywilly for 1 country: Honduras. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the wishywilly?

The wishywilly (Ctenosaura oedirhina) belongs to the family Iguanidae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Wishywilly (Ctenosaura oedirhina). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/wishywilly

MLA

“Wishywilly (Ctenosaura oedirhina).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/wishywilly.

BibTeX
@misc{wishywilly_2026,
  title = {Wishywilly (Ctenosaura oedirhina)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/wishywilly},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}