Occurs in north-western Madagascar and on Grand Comore Island. There are two subspecies: Oplurus cuvieri cuvieri is found in north-western Madagascar from western Diego-Suarez Province southward into northern Tulear Province, and inland to the western slopes of the Tananarive Province, with an isolated population in north-western Fianarantsoa Province. Oplurus cuvieri comorensis occurs only on Grand Comore Island, westward of the northern coast of Madagascar in the northern Mozambique Channel (5).
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The collared iguana inhabits tropical forest and rainforest (4).