Anolis calimae AYALA, HARRIS & WILLIAMS, 1983

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Higher Taxa	Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Ayala's Anole
Synonym	Anolis calimae AYALA, HARRIS & WILLIAMS 1983 Dactyloa calimae — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Dactyloa calimae — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	Colombia (west Andes moutains between Valle del Cauca, Caldas and Risaralda, elevation >1500 m) Type locality: Colombia, Valle del Cauca, San Antonio, Television Tower Mountain, 1800 m
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 158392
Diagnosis
Comment	Species groups: Dactyloa punctata species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).
Etymology	Named after Lake Calima which is in turn named after the Calima Indians.
References	Ayala, Stephen; Harris, Dennis & Wiliams, Ernest E. 1983. New or problematic Anolis from Colombia. I. Anolis calimae, new species, from the cloud forest of Western Colombia. Breviora (475): 1-11 - get paper here Cardona-Botero, Victoria Eugenia; Ronald Andrés Viáfara-Vega, Alejandro Valencia-Zuleta, Andrea Echeverry-Bocanegra, Oscar Darío Hernández-Córdoba, Andrés Felipe Jaramillo- Martínez, Reynel Galvis-Cruz, Jaime Andrés Gutiérrez y Fernando Castro-Herrer 2013. Diversidad de la herpetofauna en el Valle del Cauca (Colombia): un enfoque basado en la distribución por ecorregiones, altura y zonas de vida. Biota Colombiana 14 (2): 156-233 - get paper here Castro-Herrera, F. & Vargas-Salinas, F. 2008. Anfibios y reptiles en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 251 - 277 - get paper here NICHOLSON, KIRSTEN E.; BRIAN I. CROTHER, CRAIG GUYER & JAY M. SAVAGE 2012. It is time for a new classification of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae). Zootaxa 3477: 1–108 - 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 Prates I, Melo-Sampaio PR, Drummond LO, Teixeira Jr M, Rodrigues MT, Carnaval AC. 2017. Biogeographic links between southern Atlantic Forest and western South America: rediscovery, redescription, and phylogenetic relationships of two rare montane anole lizards from Brazil. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, available online 11 May 2017 - get paper here Velasco, Julián Andres and Julio Mario Hoyos 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of the latifrons series of Anolis (Sauria: Iguania) with morphological data. Anolis Newsletter VI: 203-212 - get paper here Williams E E 1984. New or problematic Anolis from Colombia. 2. Anolis propinquus, another new species from the cloud forest of western Colombia. Breviora (477): 1-7 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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