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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Townsend's Anole 
SynonymAnolis townsendi STEJNEGER 1900: 163
Anolis townsendi — TAYLOR 1956: 123
Anolis townsendi — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 67
Norops townsendi — VILLA et al. 1988
Norops townsendi — KÖHLER 2000: 63
Norops townsendi — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops townsendi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops townsendi — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionCosta Rica (Cocos Island)

Type locality: Cocos Island, Costa Rica.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 22106 
Diagnosis 
CommentSpecies group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012)

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyNamed in honour of Mr. Charles H. Townsend, the collector of the types. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Jenssen, T.A. & L.M. Rothblum 1977. Display Repertoire Analysis of Anolis townsendi (Sauria: Iguanidae) from Cocos Island Copeia 1977 (1): 103-109. - get paper here
  • Jenssen, Thomas A. 1977. Evolution of Anoline Lizard Display Behavior. American Zoologist 17: 203-215 - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp.
  • 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 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
  • Peters, James A. & Donoso-Barros, Roberto 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part II. Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 293 pp. - get paper here
  • Phillips, JG, SE Burton, MM Womack, E Pulver, and KE Nicholson 2019. Biogeography, systematics, and ecomorphology of Pacific island anoles. Diversity 11: 141 - 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
  • Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
  • Stejneger, L 1900. Descriptions of two new lizards of the genus Anolis from Cocos and Malpelo Islands. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 36: 161- 163 (+ 1 plate) - get paper here
  • Taylor, E. H. 1956. A review of the lizards of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 38 (part 1): 3-322 - get paper here
 
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