Anolis amplisquamosus (MCCRANIE, WILSON & WILLIAMS, 1993)

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Higher Taxa	Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Norops amplisquamosus MCCRANIE, WILSON & WILLIAMS 1993 Norops amplisquamosus — KÖHLER 2000: 59 Norops amplisquamosus — NICHOLSON 2002 Norops amplisquamosus — KÖHLER 2008 Anolis amplisquamosus — TOWNSEND & WILSON 2009 Norops amplisquamosus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Norops amplisquamosus — MCCRANIE 2015 Norops amplisquamosus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	NW Honduras (elevation 1530-1720 m) Type locality: Finca El Cusuco, 1550 m elevation, 15° 31’ N, 88° 12’ W, 5.6 km WSW Buenos Aires, Sierra de Omoa, Cortés, Honduras.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: KU 219924 (Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas), adult male from El Cusuco (15°31‘N, 88°12’W), a finca located 5.6 km WSW Buenos Aires, 1550 m elevation, Sierra de Omoa, Depar- tamento de Cortes, Honduras (Fig. 4), col- lected 22 May 1980 by James R. McCranie and Larry David Wilson. Paratypes. KU 219925-30, all adult males, KU 219931-36, all subadult males, KU 219937-47, all adult females, KU 219948-49, all subadult females, all from the type locality, 1530-1720 m elevation.
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Comment	Species group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012) Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	The name amplisquamosus is from the Latin words amplus (large) and squama (scale) and the Latin suffix -osus (full of or augmented). The name alludes to the distinctive large dorsal scales of this species.
References	Brown, Tom W.; John David Curlis, George Lonsdale, Cameron Thorpe, and Alexander Hoad 2018. Color change in the gorgetal scales of an anole, Anolis amplisquamosus (Squamata: Dactyloidae). IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 25 (2): 127–128 - get paper here Hofmann, E. P., & Townsend, J. H. 2017. Origins and biogeography of the Anolis crassulus subgroup (Squamata: Dactyloidae) in the highlands of Nuclear Central America. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17(1), 267 - get paper here Hofmann, E.P., Townsend, J.H. 2020. Origins and biogeography of the Anolis crassulus subgroup (Squamata: Dactyloidae) in the highlands of Nuclear Central America. BMC Evol Biol 17, 267 (2017) - get paper here Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp. Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp. KÖHLER, GUNTHER 2014. Characters of external morphology used in Anolis taxonomy—Definition of terms, advice on usage, and illustrated examples. Zootaxa 3774 (2): 201–257 - get paper here Laking AE, Solís JM, Brown T, Maddock ST, Burdekin O, Taylor P, Lonsdale G, Green SEW, Martin TE, Galdamez JR, Kolby JE, Erens J, Jocque M 2024. The amphibians and reptiles of Cusuco National Park, Northwest Honduras: updates from a long-term conservation programme. In: Lipińska M, Lopez-Selva MM, Sierra JM (Eds) Biodiversity research in Central America. Neotropical Biology and Conservation 19(2): 37-62 - get paper here McCranie J R; Wilson L D; Williams K L 1992. A new species of anole of the Norops crassulus group (Sauria: Polychridae) from northwestern Honduras. Carib. J. Sci. 28 (3-4): 208-215 McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here McCranie, James R. 2018. The Lizards, Crocodiles, and Turtles of Honduras. Systematics, Distribution, and Conservation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Special Publication Series (2): 1- 666 - get paper here McCranie, James R. and Gunther Köhler 2015. The Anoles (Reptilia: Squamata: Dactyloidae: Anolis: Norops) of Honduras. Systematics, Distribution, and Conservation. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard (Special Publication Series, No. 1): 1-280 [review in Q. J. Biol. 91: 227] - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Nicholson, K.E. 2002. Phylogenetic analysis and a test of the current infrageneric classification of Norops (beta Anolis). Herpetological Monographs 16: 93-120 - get paper here NICHOLSON, KIRSTEN E.; BRIAN I. CROTHER, CRAIG GUYER & JAY M. SAVAGE 2018. Translating a clade based classification into one that is valid under the international code of zoological nomenclature: the case of the lizards of the family Dactyloidae (Order Squamata). Zootaxa 4461 (4): 573–586 - get paper here Poe, S. 2013. 1986 Redux: New genera of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) are unwarranted. Zootaxa 3626 (2): 295–299 - get paper here Solís, J. M., L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2014. An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1: 123–144 - get paper here Townsend, Josiah H.; Larry David Wilson 2009. New Species of Cloud Forest Anolis (Squamata: Polychrotidae) in the crassulus Group from Parque Nacional Montaña de Yoro, Honduras. Copeia, 2009 (1): 62-70 - get paper here Wilson, L.D. & McCranie, J.R. 2003. The herpetofauna of the cloud forests of Honduras. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 3 (1): 34-48 - get paper here
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