genus and species name for marine iguana
The marine iguana is the only sea-going lizard. The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is an endemic species to the Galapagos Islands, an archipelago of approximately 25,000 square miles located 600 to 700 miles west of Ecuador in equatorial waters (Carpenter 1966).escription of Species. The marine iguana body is elongate and fusiform. The average length of an adult male is approximately 1.3 meters and an adult female is approximately 0.6 meters in length. The weight of these iguanas range between 0.5 kilograms and 1.5 kilograms (Berry 1984).