ð¼Etymology of the name Gad. Abarim Publications' online Biblical Hebrew Dictionary. The name Gad indicates a fortune for which a troublesome, invasive effort is made. There are plenty of words to indicate treasure or felicity, but Leah who named the son of her maid, chose this painful word ××, Gad.
The marine iguana is the only sea-going lizard. The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is an endemic species to the Galapagos Islands, an archipelago of approximately 25,000 square miles located 600 to 700 miles west of Ecuador in equatorial waters (Carpenter 1966).escription of Species. The marine iguana body is elongate and fusiform. The average length of an adult male is approximately 1.3 meters and an adult female is approximately 0.6 meters in length. The weight of these iguanas range between 0.5 kilograms and 1.5 kilograms (Berry 1984).
Galapagos marine iguanas are the world's only marine lizards (4). They inhabit the Galapagos Islands and, in the absence of mammalian predators, have adapted well to the harsh marine environment.