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Cuban false chameleon (A. barbatus) Baracoa anole (A. baracoae) West Cuban anole (A. bartschi) Giant green anole (A. biporcatus)Anolis bahorucoensis Noble & Hassler, 1933 – Baoruco long-snouted anole, Bahoruco long-snouted anole
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.
Lizard taxa in the Dactyloidae family — the anoles, also classified by some biologists in the Iguanidae family . The main article for this category is Dactyloidae . Pages in category "Anoles"
Anolis carolinensis or green anole (US: / ə ˈ n oʊ. l i / ⓘ) (among other names below) is a tree-dwelling species of anole lizard native to the southeastern United States and introduced to islands in the Pacific and Caribbean.
Anolis roquet var. cinereus Garman, 1888 The Grenada bush anole or bronze anole ( Anolis aeneus ) is a species of anole lizard found in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles and South America . It is distributed on Grenada and throughout the Grenadines islands, and it has been introduced to Trinidad and Tobago .
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 ...
Diving lizards, such as the Anolis aquaticus, are believed to have evolved to be able to respire while staying underwater by holding air between their cuticles and the water that they are surrounded with. This is a development that was necessary for the lizards, that were initially terrestrial creatures restricted only to breathing directly ...
Anolis chrysolepis, the goldenscale anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is found in Guyana , Suriname , French Guiana , and Brazil . [ 2 ]