Anolis kreutzi (MCCRANIE, KÖHLER & WILSON, 2000)

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Higher Taxa	Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Norops kreutzi MCCRANIE, KÖHLER & WILSON 2000 Norops kreutzi — NICHOLSON 2002 Anolis kreutzi — TOWNSEND & WILSON 2009 Norops kreutzi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Norops kreutzi — MCCRANIE & KÖHLER 2015: 79 Norops kreutzi — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	NW Honduras Type locality: 2.5 km airline km NNE La Fortuna (15° 26’ N, 87° 18’ W), 1670-1690 m, Departamento de Yoro, Honduras
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: SMF 78844
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: Poe (2016) considers the diagnostic characters suggested by Köhler as insufficient to distinguish between A. laeviventris and kreutzi. Species group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012)
Etymology	Named after Joerg Kreutz, who made hemipenial drawings of anoles.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Mccranie, J.R., KÖHLER, G. & WILSON, L.D. 2000. Two new species of anoles from northwestern Honduras related to Norops laeviventris (Squamata: Polychrotidae). Senckenbergiana biologica 80 (1/2): 213-223 McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here McCranie, James R. 2018. The Lizards, Crocodiles, and Turtles of Honduras. Systematics, Distribution, and Conservation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Special Publication Series (2): 1- 666 - get paper here McCranie, James R. and Gunther Köhler 2015. The Anoles (Reptilia: Squamata: Dactyloidae: Anolis: Norops) of Honduras. Systematics, Distribution, and Conservation. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard (Special Publication Series, No. 1): 1-280 [review in Q. J. Biol. 91: 227] - 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 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, S. 2016. Book review: The Anoles of Honduras: Systematics, Dis tribution, and Conservation. The Quarterly Review of Biology 91: 227 - get paper here Schlüter, U. 2001. Neuerungen in der Systematik der mittelamerikanischen Saumfinger der Gattung Norops seit 1996. Iguana Rundschreiben 14 (2): 19-28 Solís, J. M., L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2014. An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1: 123–144 - get paper here Townsend, J. H., L. D. Wilson, M. Medina-Flores, E. Aguilar-Urbina, B. K. Atkinson et al. 2012. A premontane hotspot for herpetological endemism on the windward side of Refugio de Vida Silvestre Texíguat, Honduras. Salamandra 48 (2): 92-114 - get paper here Townsend, Josiah H.; Larry David Wilson 2009. New Species of Cloud Forest Anolis (Squamata: Polychrotidae) in the crassulus Group from Parque Nacional Montaña de Yoro, Honduras. Copeia, 2009 (1): 62-70 - get paper here Wilson, L.D. & McCranie, J.R. 2003. The conservation status of the herpetofauna of Honduras. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 3 (1): 6-33 - get paper here
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