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Anolis caquetae WILLIAMS, 1974

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Caqueta Anole 
SynonymAnolis caquetae WILLIAMS 1974: 8
Dactyloa caquetae — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Dactyloa caquetae — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionColombia (Caqueta)

Type locality: Colombia, Caqueta, Camp Soratama, Upper Apaporis.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 131176 (in catalogue as 136176) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Close to A. dissimilis but without the tail crest characteristic of that species and with a different coloration. (Williams 1974)


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CommentSpecies groups: Dactyloa punctata species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).

Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • 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, 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
  • Poe, Steven 2025. A Guide to the Anolis Lizards (Anoles) of Mainland Central and South America. Princeton University Press, 432 pp. - get paper here
  • Williams E E 1982. Three new species of the Anolis punctatus complex from Amazonian and inter-Audean Colombia, with comments on the eastern members of the punctatus species group. Breviora (467): 1-38 - get paper here
  • Williams,E.E. 1974. South American Anolis: Three new species related to Anolis nigrolineatus and A. dissimilis. Breviora (422): 1-15 - get paper here
 
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