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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of American iguanoid lizards, having no anal or femoral pores, and the back and tail crested. There are many species, natives of tropical America and the West Indies, known as roquets, as L. carinatus, the keeled roquet.

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  • Among the other vertebrate groups, two reptiles, the mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) and the spineless forest lizard (Calotes liocephalus), are listed as endangered, as are eight freshwater fish species.

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