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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.
Anolis cristatellus cristatellus A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837 – Puerto Rican crested anole; Anolis cristatellus wileyae Grant, 1931 Large-headed anole (A. cybotes) in a garden in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic; Anolis cristifer H.M. Smith, 1968 – crested lichen anole, Cristifer anole; Anolis cryptolimifrons G. Köhler & Sunyer, 2008
A well-camouflaged aquarit anole An aquatic anole in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica. Anolis aquaticus, commonly known as the water anole, is a semi-aquatic species of anole, a lizard in the family Dactyloidae, native to southwestern Costa Rica and far southwestern Panama. [2]
The brown anole belongs to the family and genus, Datyloidae and Anolis, respectively. [26] The most closely related species to Anolis sagrei is Anolis nelsoni, also called Nelson's anole. [26] [27] The brown anole has a shorter snout length than the green anole. [16] The green anole, or Anolis carolinensis, is green or light brown patterned. [16]
Anolis carolinensis is a species of the large lizard genus Anolis within the family Dactyloidae (anole lizards). This species was named by Friedrich Siegmund Voigt (1781-1850) in 1832.
New anole species are regularly described, like Anolis kunayalae from Panama in 2007 [181] The name for this group of lizards originates from the Carib anoli. It was modified and used in French Creole, and then transferred to English via the genus name Anolis, coined by French zoologist François Marie Daudin in 1802. [182] [183]
Anolis proboscis, commonly known as the horned anole, Ecuadorian horned anole [2] or Pinocchio lizard, [3] is a small anole lizard in the family Dactyloidae. A single male specimen was discovered in 1953 in Ecuador and formally described by Peters and Orces in 1956, but the species then went unreported until its rediscovery in 2004. Its ...
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"