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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Emerald anole, Evermann's Anole, Small Green Anole
Spanish: Lagartijo verde 
SynonymAnolis evermanni STEJNEGER 1904: 647
Anolis evermanni — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 261
Anolis evermanni — BRANDLEY & DE QUEIROZ 2004
Ctenonotus evermanni — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Anolis evermani — KLACZKO et al. 2015 (in error)
Ctenonotus evermanni — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionPuerto Rico

Type locality: Catalina Plantation, east slope of El Yunque, Bosque Experimental de Luquillo, Puerto Rico.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 26855. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1324 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentFor illustrations see Stejneger, 1904; Schmidt, 1928; Rivero, 1978; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985.
Ecomorph class: trunk-crown.

Species group: Ctenonotus cristatellus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Barton Warren Evermann (1853-1932), a school-teacher (1876-1886) and a student at Indiana University, where he was awarded a doctorate (1891). He worked for the Bureau of Fishes in Washington (1891-1914) and lectured on zoology at Cornell (1900-1903), Yale (1903-1906), and later, Stanford, where he became Director of the Museum, California Academy of Sciences (1914). 
References
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  • Cooper Jr., W.E. 2005. Duration of movement as a lizard foraging movement variable. Herpetologica 61 (4): 363-372 - get paper here
  • Gorman, G.C. 1969. The zoogeography of Lesser Antillean Anolis lizards; an analysis based upon chromosomes and lactic dehydrogenases. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 138 (3): 53-80. - get paper here
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  • 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
  • Losos, J. B. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 528 pp. - get paper here
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