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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Wood's Anole
attenuatus: Slender Anole 
SynonymAnolis woodi DUNN 1940: 110
Anolis woodi woodi — TAYLOR 1956: 115
Anolis woodi attenuatus TAYLOR 1956: 118
Anolis woodi attenuatus — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 69
Anolis woodi — PETERS et al. 1970: 69
Anolis attenuatus — FITCH et al. 1976: 114
Norops woodi — VILLA et al. 1988
Anolis woodi — WILLIAMS et al. 1995
Norops woodi — KÖHLER 2000: 64
Norops woodi — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops woodi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Anolis woodi — KÖHLER et al. 2007
Norops woodi — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionPanama, Costa Rica

Type locality: El Volcán, Chiriquí, Panama.

attenuatus: Panama, Costa Rica; Type locality: Isla Bonita, southeastern slope of Volcán Póas, Costa Rica, elevation 5500 ft.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: AMNH 62647, adult female; in the American Museum of Natural History; collected in Feb.-Mar. 1936, by F. E. Lutz and W. J. Gertsch, while members of the late Mr. W. C. Wood's Panama trip.
Holotype: KUMNH No. 34257; paratype: KUMNH No. 34256 [attenuatus] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “A fair-sized (head and body 72 mm.) Anolis with keeled imbricate dorsals in an ill-defined zone composed of the eight median rows of largest scales; laterals keeled or tuberculate scarcely imbricate; ventrals larger than dorsals, heavily keeled, slightly mueronate; longest toe reaches eye; tibia as long as head to ear; ear opening smaller than eye; two scales between semicircles; occipital smaller than ear; a broad, irregular, light dorsal band; resembles capito, but has different dorsals and a longer head.” (Dunn 1940)


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CommentSubspecies: Anolis woodi attenuatus has been elevated to species status by FITCH et al (1976) but considered as synonym of Norops woodi by KÖHLER 2000.

Species group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012) 
EtymologyNamed after W. C. Wood who may have been an official in the Panama Canal Zone. 
References
  • Acosta-Chaves, Víctor J.; Gerardo Chaves, Juan G. Abarca, Adrián García-Rodríguez, Federico Bolaños 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Río Macho Biological Station, Provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica. Check List 11 (6): 1784 - get paper here
  • Acosta-Chaves, Víctor, David Araya-H. and Manuel Cabalceta. 2015. Norops woodi. Predation by a Red-headed Barbet (Eubucco bourcierii). Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 114–116 - 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
  • Fitch, H. S., ECHELLE, A. A., & ECHELLE, A. E 1976. Field observations on rare or little known mainland anoles. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 51: 91-128 - get paper here
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Köhler, Gunther; Marcos Ponce, Javier Sunyer, and Abel Batista 2007. FOUR NEW SPECIES OF ANOLES (GENUS ANOLIS) FROM THE SERRANÍA DE TABASARÁ, WEST-CENTRAL PANAMA (SQUAMATA: POLYCHROTIDAE). Herpetologica 63 (3): 375-391 - get paper here
  • Mendenhall, Chase D.; Luke O. Frishkoff, Georgina Santos-Barrera, Jesús Pacheco, Eyobed Mesfun, Fernando Mendoza Quijano, Paul R. Ehrlich, Gerardo Ceballos, Gretchen C. Daily, and Robert M. Pringle 2014. Countryside biogeography of Neotropical reptiles and amphibians. Ecology 95: 856–870 - get paper here
  • Nicholson KE, C. Guyer, and JG Phillips 2017. Biogeographic Origin of Mainland Norops (Squamata: Dactyloidae). Assumptions Inhibiting Progress in Comparative Biology (eds. Crother and Parenti), pp. 169–184
  • 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
  • Poe, S. 2013. 1986 Redux: New genera of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) are unwarranted. Zootaxa 3626 (2): 295–299 - get paper here
  • Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Jesus Pacheco, Fernando Mendoza-Quijano, Federico Bolaños,<br>Gerardo Cháves , Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich & Gerardo Ceballos 2008. Diversity, natural history and conservation of amphibians and reptiles from the San Vito Region, southwestern Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 56 (2): 755-778 - 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]
  • Taylor, E. H. 1956. A review of the lizards of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 38 (part 1): 3-322 - get paper here
  • 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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