Marine Iguana, Galapagos, Phillip Colla Photography

Marine Iguana, Galapagos

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Latitude: 0° 17' 2.5" S, Longitude: 90° 33' 21.2" W, Coord: -0.28403°, -90.55589°
Filed under: Galapagos Diaries on 3/5/2009

Skip found a marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) foraging on algae while we were freediving along the edge of Bartolome Island, and I got a shot of it, the only one I’ve ever seen in the Galapagos Islands underwater:

Marine iguana, underwater, forages for green algae that grows on the lava reef., Amblyrhynchus cristatus, Copyright Phillip Colla, image #16227, all rights reserved worldwide.
Marine iguana, underwater, forages for green algae that grows on the lava reef. Bartolome Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
Image: 16227  
Species: Amblyrhynchus cristatus
Location: Bartolome Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
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