You are here » home › advanced search › search results › Anolis vanidicus

Anolis vanidicus GARRIDO & SCHWARTZ, 1972

iNaturalist logo

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Anolis vanidicus?

Add your own observation of
Anolis vanidicus »

Find more photos by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Escambray Grass Anole, Vanidicus Anole 
SynonymAnolis vanidicus GARRIDO & SCHWARTZ 1972: 515
Anolis vandicus — ZOOLOGICAL RECORD 1972
Anolis vanidicus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 352
Anolis vanidicus — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 315
Anolis vanidicus — NICHOLSON et al. 2005
Anolis vanidicus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Anolis vanidicus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionCuba (Sierra de Trinidad, near Santiago de Cuba)

Anolis vanidicus vanidicus: Sierra de Trinidad and adjacent lowlands. Type locality: 4 km W, 12 km N Trinidad (road to Topes de Collantes), Sancti Spiritus Province, Cuba.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: AMNH 78400. 
Diagnosis 
CommentAnolis vanidicus rejectus has been elevated to species status by GARRIDO & HEDGES 2000.

Species group: Anolis alutaceus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). 
References
  • Garrido, O. H. and A. Schwartz. 1972. The Cuban Anolis spectrum complex (Sauria, Iguanidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 85: 509-521. - get paper here
  • Garrido, O. H. and Hedges, S. B. 2000. Elevation of Anolis vanidicus rejectus Garrido and Schwartz (Sauria: Iguanidae) to species status and designation of Anolis mimus Schwartz and Thomas as a synonym. Carib. J. Sci. 36 (1-2):160-161 - get paper here
  • Marrero, R., T. M. Rodríguez-Cabrera and J. Torres 2016. Anolis vanidicus (Escambray Grass Anole) maximum elevation. Herpetological Review 47(3): 460-461. - 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. 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
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
 
External links  
Is it interesting? Share with others:

As link to this species use URL address:

https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Anolis&species=vanidicus

without field 'search_param'. Field 'search_param' is used for browsing search result.



Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator