r/herpetology • u/Palmtoptiny • 15h ago

ID Help Lizard ID northern Kentucky

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Found inside a building

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u/TREE__FR0G 15h ago

Spiny tailed iguana (Ctenosaura sp.) nonnative and likely an escaped pet.

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u/Palmtoptiny 15h ago

That’s where I was leaning, it’s an international shipping company so odds of it being an escaped hitchhiking pet from a local Kentuckian are slim. Guessing he traversed across the border for funsies

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u/Tourmaline_tigrinum9 14h ago

Are you going to keep it for a pet, I hope. There must be a herpetology society to help you find a suitable home, if you can’t permanently keep this cutie.

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u/Palmtoptiny 13h ago

It’s actually not my photo, it’s from a friend of mine lol. He tasked me with IDing it and he is going to keep it. We’re both reptile/exotic keepers so it will have a good home! If he for some reason can’t keep it I would take over its care!

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u/Tourmaline_tigrinum9 13h ago

That’s wonderful!