{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{Automatic taxobox |image=Ctenosaura defensor (6138652398).jpg |image_caption=Yucatán spiny-tailed iguana (''Cachryx defensor'') |taxon=Cachryx |authority=Cope, 1866 }}
'''''Cachryx''''' is a genus of lizards in the family Iguanidae, native to the Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and adjacent Guatemala.
==Taxonomy== There are two described species in this genus.<ref name=RDB>{{NRDB genus|genus=Cachryx|year=2018|date=27 November}}</ref> Until 2017, they were genererally included in ''Ctenosaura''.<ref>{{cite journal| last1=Malone | first1=C.L. | last2=Reynoso | first2=V.H. | last3=Buckley | first3=L. | year= 2017 | title=Never judge an iguana by its spines: Systematics of the Yucatan spiny tailed iguana, Ctenosaura defensor (Cope, 1866) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=115 | pages=27–39 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.07.010 | pmid=28716742 }}</ref>
* Campeche spiny-tailed iguana, ''Cachryx alfredschmidti'' <small>(Kohler, 1995)</small> * Yucatán spinytail iguana, ''Cachryx defensor'' <small>(Cope, 1866)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Iguanidae}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q57578910}}
Category:Cachryx Category:Lizard genera Category:Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope