tegu in English
noun
1
a large stocky lizard that has dark skin with pale bands of small spots, native to the tropical forests of South America.
Some nests had clearly been raided by tegus - large black-and-white lizards common in the reserve - and jaguar footprints and scratch marks on trees near nests implicated the big cats as well.
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1. Aciliate papillae were numerous on the tegu-ment lateral to the oral sucker (Fig
2. Apart from T. atlantica, the reptile fauna of Fernando de Noronha consists of the indigenous amphisbaenian Amphisbaena ridleyi and two introduced lizards, the gecko Hemidactylus mabouia and the tegu Tupinambis merianae.