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Anolis porcus (COPE, 1864)

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Oriente Bearded Anole 
SynonymChamaeleolis porcus COPE 1864:168
Chamaeleolis porcus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON
Chamaeleolis porcus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 382
Anolis porcus — POWELL et al. 1996: 80
Chamaeleolis porcus — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 170
Chamaeleolis porcus — KARCH 2002
Xiphosurus porcus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Anolis (Chamaeleolis) porcus — RODRIGUEZ-SCHETTINO et al. 2013
Xiphosurus porcus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionE Cuba

Type locality: Cuba; restricted by Garrido and Schwartz, 1968, to the vicinity of the city of Guantánamo, Guantánamo Province, Cuba.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 8133. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1554 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentThe genus Chamaeleolis was synonymized within Anolis by Hass et al. (1993).

Species group: Xiphosurus chamaeleonides species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). 
References
  • Cope, E.D. 1864. Contributions to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 16: 166-181. - get paper here
  • Diaz,L.M.; Navarro,N. & Garrido, O.H. 1998. Nueva especie de Chamaeleolis (Sauria: Iguanidae) de la Meseta de Cabo Cruz, Granma, Cuba. Avicennia 8/9: 27-34
  • Garrido,O.H. & Schwartz,A. 1968. Cuban lizards of the genus Chamaeleolis. Quarterly J. Florida Acad. Sci. 30: 197-220 [1967] - get paper here
  • Hass, C. A., S. B. Hedges, and L. R. Maxson. 1993. Molecular insights into the relationships and biogeography of West Indian anoline lizards. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 21: 97-114. - get paper here
  • Holáňová V., Rehák I. & Frynta D. 2012. Anolis sierramaestrae sp. nov. (Squamata: Polychrotidae) of the “chamaeleolis” species group from Eastern Cuba. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 76 (1–2): 45–52. - get paper here
  • Karch, P. 2002. Bemerkungen zur Gattung Chamaeleolis. Iguana Rundschreiben 15 (2): 11-12
  • Leal, M. & J.B. Losos 2000. Behavior and Ecology of the Cuban “Chipojos Bobos” Chamaeleolis barbatus and C. porcus Journal of Herpetology 34 (2): 318-322. - get paper here
  • Mahler, D. Luke; Shea M. Lambert, Anthony J. Geneva, Julienne Ng, S. Blair Hedges, Jonathan B. Losos, and Richard E. Glor 2016. Discovery of a Giant Chameleon-Like Lizard (Anolis) on Hispaniola and Its Significance to Understanding Replicated Adaptive Radiations. The American Naturalist 188 (3): 357-364, DOI: 10.1086/687566 - 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
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
 
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