Floreana

Miralles, Aurélien, Macleod, Amy, Rodríguez, Ariel, Ibáñez, Alejandro, Jiménez-Uzcategui, Gustavo, Quezada, Galo, Vences, Miguel & Steinfartz, Sebastian, 2017, Shedding light on the Imps of Darkness: an integrative taxonomic revision of the Galápagos marine iguanas (genus Amblyrhynchus), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181, pp. 678-710 : 692

Floreana and Española cluster

Populations from these two islands form a single cluster in the microsatellite loci analysis. They also are closely related in SNP–PCA and form a cluster in the RADseq tree, but specimens from the two islands are not reciprocally monophyletic in the RADseq tree. We therefore consider specimens from both islands as belonging to a single subspecies for which the name A. c. venustissimus is available, and which is morphologically highly divergent from all other subspecies.