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Anolis alfaroi GARRIDO & HEDGES, 1992

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Small-fanned Bush Anole 
SynonymAnolis alfaroi GARRIDO & HEDGES 1992
Anolis alfaroi — NICHOLSON et al. 2005
Anolis alfaroi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Anolis alfaroi — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionE Cuba (Cuchillas de Moa)

Type locality: "2 km N La Munici6n, Municipio Yateras, Guantanamo Province, Cuba, 730 m" (elevation)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype. 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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CommentSpecies 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. 
EtymologyNamed 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 24 (2): 262-273 - 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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