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| | Discover Life - Sauria: Corytophanidae - Casquehead lizards, Basilisk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | In Corytophanes and Laemanctus, both sexes sport large head crests and casques; in the highly sexually-dimorphic Basiliscus, only the males have crests (and males grow faster than females after their first year of life. |
 | | Corytophanes and Laemanctus, which together form a clade, are highly arboreal, living in the forest canopy. |
 | | Corytophanes uses its crest in a defensive display, orienting its head towards predators such that it appears larger than it actually is. Corytophanes is also a sit-and-wait predator, catching prey items once a day or less, but regularly eating items half as long as its own body. |
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