Ctenosaura clarki

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| name = Ctenosaura clarki

| image =

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Köhler, G. |author-link=Gunther Köhler |date=2004 |title=Ctenosaura clarki |volume=2004 |page=e.T44194A10861033 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T44194A10861033.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| status2 = CITES_A2

| status2_system = CITES

| status2_ref = {{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}

| genus = Ctenosaura

| species = clarki

| authority = J.W. Bailey, 1928{{ITIS|id=586173|taxon=Ctenosaura clarki |accessdate=2 January 2008}}

| synonyms = *Ctenosaura clarki
{{small|J.W. Bailey, 1928}}

Enyaliosaurus clarki
{{small|— H.M. Smith & Taylor, 1950}}
Ctenosaura clarki
{{small|— Liner, 1994}}
Ctenosaura (Enyaliosaurus) clarki
{{small|— G. Köhler et al., 2000}}
Ctenosaura clarki
{{small|— Cruz-Sáenz et al., 2017}}

| synonyms_ref ={{EMBL species|genus=Ctenosaura|species=clarki}} www.reptile-database.org.

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Ctenosaura clarki, commonly known as the Balsas armed lizard, Balsas spiny-tailed iguana, Michoacán dwarf spiny-tailed iguana, or nopiche,{{cite journal|url=http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57035/1/OP598.pdf|first=William E.|last=Duellman|author-link=:fr:William Edward Duellman|author2=Duellman, Ann S.|title=Variation, Distribution, and Ecology of the Iguanid Lizard Enyaliosaurus clarki of Michoacan, Mexico|journal=Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology|publisher=University of Michigan|number=598 |pages=1–10|date=1959-02-16}} is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. The species native to Mexico.

Etymology

The specific name, clarki, is in honor of Dr. Herbert Charles Clark (1877–1960), director of medical research and laboratories, United Fruit Co., for his support of the herpetological collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.Bailey JW (1928). p. 2.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Ctenosaura clarkii [sic]", p. 54).

Geographic range

C. clarki is endemic to the Balsas dry forests in the state of Michoacán in western Mexico.

Behavior

A semi-arboreal species, C. clarki shelters in hollow branches of tree cacti.

Reproduction

C. clarki is oviparous.

Conservation status

C. clarki is threatened by habitat loss.