Haensch's whorltail iguana

Haensch's whorltail iguana
Conservation status
	; Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Tropiduridae
Genus:	Stenocercus
Species:	S. haenschi
Binomial name
	Stenocercus haenschi; (F. Werner, 1901)
Synonyms
	Liocephalus formosus ; Boulenger, 1880; Liocephalus haenschi ; F. Werner, 1901; (nomen substitutum); Ophryoessoides haenschi ; — Etheridge, 1966; Stenocercus haenschi ; — Fritts, 1974;

Haensch's whorltail iguana (Stenocercus haenschi) is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae. The species is native to Ecuador.^[2]

Geographic range

S. haenschi is endemic to Bolívar Province of Ecuador, where it is only known from one locality.^[1]

The preferred natural habitat of S. haenschi is forest.^[1]

S. haenschi is arboreal.^[1]

S. haenschi is oviparous.^[2]

S. haenschi is considered to be critically endangered and possibly extinct.^[1]

S. haenschi is named in honor of German entomologist Richard Haensch.^[2]^[3]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. (2017). "Stenocercus haenschi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T178690A54447325. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T178690A54447325.en. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Species Stenocercus haenschi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ 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. (Stenocercus haenschi, p. 113).

Boulenger GA (1880). "Reptiles et Batraciens recueillis par M. Émile de Ville dans les Andes de l'Équateur ". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 5: 41–48. (Liocephalus formosus, new species, p. 43). (in French).
Werner F (1901). "Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Ecuador und Neu-Guinea". Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 51: 593–614. (Liocephalus haenschi, new species, p. 595). (in German).

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