| Higher Taxa | Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Escambray Blue-eyed Anole, Ahl's Anole |
| Synonym | Anolis ahli BARBOUR 1925: 168
Anolis allogus ahli — BARBOUR 1937: 120
Anolis mestrei ahli — HARDY 1958: 205
Anolis ahli — SCHWARTZ 1968: 173
Anolis ahli — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 209
Anolis ahli — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 365
Norops ahli — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops ahli — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops alhi — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 (in error)
Norops ahli — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Cuba (Sierra de Trinidad)
Type locality: Electric plant, 1500 ft., Sierra de Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus Province, Cuba.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ 19905. |
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| Comment | Illustrations: Schwartz, 1968.
Species group: Norops sagrei species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). |
| Etymology | Named after Ernst Ahl, German herpetologist (1898-1945). |
| References |
- Barbour, T. 1925. A new Cuban Anolis. Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 5: 167-168 - get paper here
- Barbour,T. 1937. Third list of Antillean reptiles and amphibians. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 82 (2): 77-166 - 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
- Hardy, J.D., Jr. 1958. Tail prehension and related behavior in a New World lizard. Herpetologica 14 (4): 205-6. - get paper here
- Muñoz, Martha M.; Johanna E. Wegener and Adam C. Algar 2014. Untangling Intra- and Interspecific Effects on Body Size Clines Reveals Divergent Processes Structuring Convergent Patterns in Anolis Lizards. The American Naturalist 184 (5), DOI: 10.1086/678084 - 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. 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
- 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
- Ruibal, R. 1964. An annotated checklist and key to the anoline lizards of Cuba. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 130 (8): 475-520. - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. 1968. The Cuban lizards of the Anolis homolechis complex. Tulane Studies in Zoology 14: 140-184. - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Torres, Javier, Ruben Marrero and Tomás M. Rodríguez-Cabrera. 2015. Anolis ahli (Ahl's anole) maximum elevation. Herpetological Review 46 (1): 86 - get paper here
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