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Anolis guafe ESTRADA & GARRIDO, 1991

IUCN Red List - Anolis guafe - Endangered, EN
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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cabo Cruz Banded Anole 
SynonymAnolis guafe ESTRADA & GARRIDO 1991: 148
Anolis guafe — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 351
Norops guafe — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops guafe — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops guafe — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionCuba

Type locality: "El Guafe (2 km NE de Cabo Cruz), Granma, Cuba"  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: private collection, CARE (colección de A. R. Estrada) 60516 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “Una especie de tamaño pequeño (x̅ LHC machos 46 mm; hembras 36 mm) perteneciente a la sección beta del segmento cubano del género Anolis, muy relacionada con las especies homolechis y jubar, pero distinguible por su talla menor, coloración dorsal gris clara o un patrón de barras transversales negras sobre gris en fase oscura: pliegue gular reducido y de color blanco-amarillento (presente en los machos, vestigial en las hembras), escamas en torno al interparietal lisas; escamas supraescapulares lisas; escamas medias dorsales pequeñas y aquilladas (x̅ EMD machos 24; hembras 31); escamas medias ventrales mayores que las dorsales, lisas (x̅ EMV machos 14; hembras 16).” (ESTRADA & GARRIDO 1991) 
CommentA. guafe is closely related to A. homolechis and A. jubar of Cuba.

Species group: Norops sagrei species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). 
References
  • Estrada, A. R. and O. H. Garrido 1991. Dos nuevas especies de Anolis (Lacertilia: Iguanidae) de la región oriental de Cuba. Carib. J. Sci. 27: 146-161. - 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. 2013. 1986 Redux: New genera of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) are unwarranted. Zootaxa 3626 (2): 295–299 - get paper here
  • Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes (ed.) 1999. The iguanid lizards of Cuba. University Press of Florida, 428 pp.
  • Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes, Carlos A. Mancina & Vilma Rivalta González 2013. REPTILES OF CUBA: CHECKLIST AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (144): 1-96 - get paper here
 
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