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).
But these âdisgusting, clumsy lizardsâ were one of the keys that helped Darwin unlock the secrets of his theory of evolution. Galapagos marine iguanas are the only aquatic lizards in the world, and Darwin surmised they were able to adapt their ability to swim and dive for food to suit their habitat. Marine iguanas make their home on the rocky shores of the Galapagos Islands. As such, their limbs and claws are much stronger than those of other large lizards. This allows them to cling to the rocks when waves crash upon them.