EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Reproduction. Male iguanas, like other male examples of Squamata, have two hemipenes. During copulation, one hemipenis is inserted into the female’s cloacal vent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Squamata (/skwæˈmeɪtə/, Latin squamatus, ‘scaly, having scales’) is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians (worm lizards), which are collectively known as squamates or scaled reptiles.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Squamata, or the scaled reptiles, are the largest recent order of reptiles, comprising all lizards and snakes. With over 10, 000 species, it is also the second-largest order of extant vertebrates, after the perciform fish, and roughly equal in number to the Saurischia (one of the two major groups of dinosaurs).

Detailed explanation-4: -iguana, any of eight genera and roughly 30 species of the larger members of the lizard family Iguanidae. The name iguana usually refers only to the members of the subfamily Iguaninae.