Navassa Curly-tailed Lizard

Leiocephalus eremitus is an extinct lizard of the family of smoothhead iguanas ( Leiocephalidae ). She was endemic to the uninhabited Caribbean island of Navassa and is known only from a single female, which was described in 1868. A second individual that was collected in 1917 by Rollo Beck, emerged in a later study by the herpetologist Richard Thomas as a specimen of Leiocephalus melanochlorus.

The length of the holotype is given as 64 mm. The head scales and the ventral scales are smooth. The dorsal scales are larger than the flank scales or the ventral scales. The back is dark gray with 9 dark diagonal bands. The tail is in the front half brightly with diagonal lines and in the back half of uniformly dark gray to black. Throat, chest, abdomen and extremities are brown with pale -edged scales.

About the lifestyle and Aussterbeursachen nothing is known.