Anolis alutaceus COPE, 1861

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Higher Taxa	Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Blue-eyed grass-bush anole, Monte Verde Anole, Blue-eyed Twig Anole
Synonym	Anolis (Dracontura) alutaceus COPE 1861: 212 Anolis alutaceus — BOULENGER 1885: 71 Anolis alutaceus saltatus — PETERS 1970: 217 Anolis alutaceus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 214 Anolis alutaceus — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 282 Anolis alutaceus — NICHOLSON et al. 2005 Anolis alutaceus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Anolis alutaceus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	Cuba, Isla de la Juventud Type locality: Monte Verde, Guantánamo Province, Cuba. Terra typica (fide RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999): Arroyo La Mariposa, Sierra de Trinidad, 4 km NW of Topes de Collantes, Las Villas province, Cuba.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: MCZ 10932; USNM 27485-88
Diagnosis
Comment	Illustrations: Barbour and Ramsden, 1919; Ruibal, 1964; Peters, 1970; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985, Flaschendräger 2002. Species group: Anolis alutaceus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).
References	Barbour, T. and C. T. Ramsden. 1919. The herpetology of Cuba. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Coll. 47: 69-213. - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1861. Notes and descriptions of anoles. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 208-215. - get paper here Flaschendräger, A. 2002. Beobachtungen an Anolis-Arten in der Cordillera de Guaniguanico, Provinz Pinar del Río, West-Kuba. Herpetofauna 24 (138): 5-18 - get paper here Fläschendräger, Axel 2017. Beobachtungen an einigen Anolis-Arten im westlichen Kuba. Terraria-Elaphe 2017 (5): 52-63 - get paper here Garrido O H 1980. Revision del complejo Anolis alutaceus (Lacertilia: Iguanidae) y descripcion de una nueva especie de Cuba. POEYANA INSTITUTO DE ZOOLOGIA ACADEMIA DE CIENCIAS DE CUBA (No. 201) 1980: 1-41 Garrido, O. H. and A. R. Estrada. 1989. Nueva especies del complejo Anolis alutaceus (Lacertilia: Iguanidae) para Cuba. Rev. Biol. 3: 57-66. 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 Heselhaus, Ralf & Schmidt, Matthias 1995. Caribbean Anoles. TFH Publications, Neptune City, NJ, 65 pp. Losos, J. B. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 528 pp. - get paper here Losos, Jonathan B., Manuel Leal, Richard E. Glor, Kevin de Queiroz, Paul E. Hertz, Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino, Ada Chamizo Lara, Todd R. Jackman & Allan Larson 2003. Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community. Nature 424: 542-545 - 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 Peters, G. 1970. Zur Taxionomie und Zoogeographie der kubanischen anolinen Eidechsen (Reptilia, Iguanide). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 46: 197-234. - 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. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Schwartz, A. and Henderson, R.W. 1985. A guide to the identification of the amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies exclusive of Hispaniola. Milwaukee Public Mus., 165 pp. Yuan, M. L., M. H. Wake, and I. J. Wang. 2019. Phenotypic integration between claw and toepad traits promotes microhabitat specialization in the Anolis adaptive radiation. Evolution 73: 231–244 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/guide_pdfs/197%20Cuba%20Baconao… http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1MwwViYJSIM/TsK0T_vonQI/AAAAAAAAUqI/Fl_DLfV_QpA… https://sites.google.com/site/kuscarji/vrste-kuscarjev/polychrotidae http://www.anoleannals.org/2012/06/11/the-gray-dewlapped-anoleanolis… Google images

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