Anolis kemptoni DUNN, 1940

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Higher Taxa	Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Kempton's Anole
Synonym	Anolis kemptoni DUNN 1940: 111 Anolis kemptoni — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 57 Anolis kemptoni — WILLIAMS et al. 1995 Norops pandoensis SAVAGE & GUYER 1998 Norops pandoensis — KÖHLER 2000: 63 Norops kemptoni — KÖHLER 2000: 62 Norops kemptoni — NICHOLSON 2002 Norops pandoensis — NICHOLSON 2002 Norops pandoensis — SVAGE 2002: 473 Norops pandoensis — NICHOLSON et al. 2005 Norops kemptoni — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Norops kemptoni — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	Panama (Chiriquí), elevation 1600-1900 m Type locality: Finca Lérida, Chiriquí, Panama, 5300 ft. elevation. pandoensis: Costa Rica (Cordillera de Talamanca), Panama; Type locality: Costa Rica: Puntarenas Province: Cantón Coto Brus: Zona Protectora Las Tablas: La Changuinolita, elevation 1950 m.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ANSP 21708 Holotype: Costa Rican Expeditions (CRE) collection 5290, an adult male; collected by Karen R. Lips, September 21, 1991 [pandoensis]
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (kepmtoni): “Close to A. cupreus and to A. godmani, but the head is shorter, the middorsals are smaller, and the leg is shorter. Also similar to A. polylepis, which occurs with it, in size and general appearance, but the scalation of the dorsum and of the tail is quite different.” (Dunn 1940) Additional details (2576 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Synonymy: Norops pandoensis has been synonymized with N. kemptoni by HULEBAK & POE 2006. Species group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012)
Etymology	Named after Dr. Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor, an American physician who was born Kempton Potter Aiken but took the surname Taylor after adoption. He worked in Guatemala (1928) and Panama, where he met Dunn, an old friend.
References	Barrio-Amorós, Cesar Luis, Michelle Quiroz, Cristian Porras-Ramírez, Rene Villanueva-Maldonado, Alejandro Estrada-García, Abel Batista 2023. Amphibians and reptiles encountered during an expedition to Panama. Reptiles & Amphibians 30 (1): e18359 - get paper here Batista, A., Hertz, A., Ponce, M. and Lotzkat, S. 2020. Notes on amphibians and reptiles from western Panama Notes on amphibians and reptiles from western Panama. Herpetology Notes 13: 219-229. - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Dunn,E.R. 1940. New and noteworthy herpetological material from Panamá. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 92: 105-122. - get paper here Echelle,A.A.; Echelle,A.F. & FITCH,H.S. 1971. A new anole from Costa Rica. Herpetologica 27: 354-362 - get paper here Hulebak, E. & Poe, S. 2006. Anolis (Norops) pandoensis Savage and Guyer 1998 Is a Junior Synonym of Anolis kemptoni Dunn 1940. Carib. J. Sci. 42 (2): 268-270 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. Kohler, G. 2011. A new species of anole related to Anolis altae from Volcán Tenorio, Costa Rica (Reptilia, Squamata, Polychrotidae). Zootaxa 3120: 29-42 - get paper here Köhler, Gunther 2009. New Species of Anolis Formerly Referred to as Anolis altae from Monteverde, Costa Rica (Squamata: Polychrotidae). Journal of Herpetology 43 (1):11-20 - get paper here Köhler, Gunther, Joseph Vargas, Johannes J. Köhler and Milan Vesel´y. 2013. Noteworthy distributional records of amphibians and reptiles from Costa Rica. Herpetological Review 44 (2): 280-283 - get paper here Mata-Silva, V, DeSantis DL, García-Padilla E, Johnson JD, Wilson LD. 2019. The endemic herpetofauna of Central America: a casualty of anthropocentrism. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1) [General Section]: 1–64 (e168) - get paper here Nicholson, K. E., R. E. Glor, J. J. Kolbe, A. Larson, S. B. Hedges, and J. B. Losos 2005. Mainland colonization by island lizards. Journal of Biogeography 32: 929–938 - 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 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. 2004. Phylogeny of anoles. Herpetological Monographs 18: 37-89 - get paper here Poe, S. 2013. 1986 Redux: New genera of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) are unwarranted. Zootaxa 3626 (2): 295–299 - get paper here Ponce, M. & Köhler, G. 2008. Morphological variation in anoles related to Anolis kemptoni in Panama. Salamandra 44 (2): 65-83 - get paper here Savage, J. M. & C. GUYER 1998. A new species of anole lizard, genus Norops (Squamata: Polychrotidae), from the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 46 (3): 805-809. - get paper here Schlüter, U. 2001. Neuerungen in der Systematik der mittelamerikanischen Saumfinger der Gattung Norops seit 1996. Iguana Rundschreiben 14 (2): 19-28 Williams, E.E.; Rand, H.; Rand, A.S. & O’Hara, R.J. 1995. A computer approach to the comparison and identification of species in difficult taxonomic groups. Breviora (502): 1-47 - get paper here
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