Common basilisk (Basiliscus basiliscus), a corytophanid lizard. Lydekker captions it as "Helmeted basilisk" but in the text gives the scientific name as Basiliscus americanus, which is now B. basiliscus.
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original=1904 scan=2008
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Lydekker, Richard (ed.). 1904. Library of Natural History. Vol. 5. Saalfield Pub. Co.: New York NY, pp. 2357-2962.
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original=Richard Lydekker scan=Tim Ross
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