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Langerhans, Knouft & Losos call the set of Anolis lizard ecomorphs of the Greater Antilles "a classic example of convergent evolution." [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Jonathan Losos defined six Anolis ecomorphs according to the predominant microhabitat (e.g. grasses, open ground, different parts of trees) of the respective Anolis : crown giant, trunk-crown, trunk ...
Anolis is a genus of anoles (US: / ə ˈ n oʊ. l i z / ⓘ), iguanian lizards in the family Dactyloidae, native to the Americas.With more than 425 species, [1] it represents the world's most species-rich amniote tetrapod genus, although many of these have been proposed to be moved to other genera, in which case only about 45 Anolis species remain.
A. evermanni is in the anole genus Anolis, which includes over 400 species of lizards native to the Americas. Anoles typically share similar sizes and shapes but differ in the habitats they occupy. This is an example of adaptive radiation as lizards on different islands adapt to different habitats.
Examples include a difference in limb length based on the diameter of the trees that different species walk on, with thinner trees leading to lizards with shorter limbs, and wider trees leading to lizards with longer limbs. The water anole, in contrast, is terrestrial, and spends most of its time on the ground or climbing rocks and large boulders.
Anolis trachyderma (Cope, 1876) – common forest anole, roughskin anole Anolis transversalis (Duméril, 1851) – banded tree anole, transverse anole Anolis trinitatis (Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862) – St. Vincent Bush anole, Saint Vincent's bush anole, Trinidad anole
The Dominican anole is restricted to the island of Dominica, one of the few islands in the Lesser Antilles to have retained its original reptile and amphibian fauna over the last 200 years. [21] It is one of two lizard species endemic to Dominica, the other being the Dominican ground lizard. [22] It is the only native anole species on Dominica ...
These lizards like to associate themselves with openings in the canopy and narrow path cuts in the edges of the forest. They do not like to inhabit trees or bushes where the canopy is closed overhead or to the side. A. occultus are observed from heights just above the forest floor to 4.5 m above the ground in structures of twigs and vines.
Anolis gundlachi, also commonly known as the yellow-chinned anole, Gundlach's anole, and the yellow-beard anole, is an oviparous, sexually dimorphic species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is endemic to Puerto Rico and lives in mountainous forests at high elevations. [2] The diet of A. gundlachi consists mostly of insects. This ...