Stenocercus crassicaudatus

Spiny whorltail iguana
Machu Picchu, Peru
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Tropiduridae
Genus:	Stenocercus
Species:	S. crassicaudatus
Binomial name
Stenocercus crassicaudatus (Tschudi, 1845)
Synonyms
Scelotrema crassicaudatum Tschudi, 1845 Stenocercus ervingi Stejneger, 1913 Urocentrum meyeri Werner, 1900

The spiny whorltail iguana (Stenocercus crassicaudatus) is a species of lizard of the Tropiduridae family, found in the state of Cusco, southeast Peru. It was first described by Johann Jakob von Tschudi in 1845.