Anolis alfaroi GARRIDO & HEDGES, 1992

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Higher Taxa	Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Small-fanned Bush Anole
Synonym	Anolis alfaroi GARRIDO & HEDGES 1992 Anolis alfaroi — NICHOLSON et al. 2005 Anolis alfaroi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Anolis alfaroi — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	E Cuba (Cuchillas de Moa) Type locality: "2 km N La Munici6n, Municipio Yateras, Guantanamo Province, Cuba, 730 m" (elevation)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype. MNHNCU 2725, an adult male from 2 km N La Municibn, Municipio Yateras, Guantanamo Province, Cuba, 730m, collected by Emilio Alfaro on 23 June 1990. Paratypes. MNHNCU 2727a-e (5), USNM 314195, 314201-02, adult males; MNHNCU 2681-82, 2722-24, 2726, 2728; USNM 314196-200, 314203-05, adult females, collected at the same place and same date as the holotype by Emilio Alfaro (specimens at MNHNCU), and by S. Blair Hedges (those at USNM). "
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Comment	Species group: Anolis alutaceus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024. Sympatry: Anolis alfaroi is sympatric with A. alutaceus, A. cupeyalensis, A. homolechis, A. sagrei, and A.smallwoodi.
Etymology	Named after Emilio Alfaro, member of the expedition who discovered this species.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Garrido, O. H. and S. B. Hedges. 1992. Three new grass anoles (Sauria: Iguanidae) from Cuba. Carib. J. Sci. 28: 21-29. - get paper here Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here 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., 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, 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, 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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