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Anolis oculatus (COPE, 1879)

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Higher TaxaDactyloidae, Iguania, Sauria (lizards) 
SubspeciesAnolis oculatus oculatus (COPE 1879)
Anolis oculatus montanus LAZELL 1962
Anolis oculatus cabritensis LAZELL 1962: 469
Anolis oculatus winstonorum LAZELL 1962: 472 
Common NamesDominican anole, Eyed Anole 
SynonymXiphosurus oculatus COPE 1879: 274
Anolis oculatus — UNDERWOOD in WILLIAMS et al. 1959
Anolis oculatus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 308
Anolis oculatus — NICHOLSON et al. 2005

Anolis oculatus montanus LAZELL 1962
Ctenonotus oculatus montanus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012

Anolis oculatus cabritensis LAZELL 1962: 469
Ctenonotus oculatus cabritensis — NICHOLSON et al. 2012

Anolis oculatus winstonorum LAZELL 1962
Anolis oculatus winstoni LAZELL 1962: 472
Anolis oculatus winstoni — ZEILFELDER 2005
Anolis oculatus winstonorum — MICHELS & BAUER 2004
Anolis oculatus winstoni — REIPRICH 2009
Ctenonotus oculatus winstonorum — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 
DistributionLesser Antilles: Dominica

oculatus: southwestern periphery of Dominica; intergrades with A. o. cabritensis, A. o. montanus, and A. o. winstoni. Type locality: Dominica; restricted ta Roseau, St. George Parish, Dominica, by Lazell, 1962.

cabritensis (HOLOTYPE MCZ 60245): aid leeward coast of Dominica from Grand Savanna ta the Cabrits; intergrades with A. o. winstoni.

montanus (HOLOTYPE MCZ 60319): interior uplands of Dominica from Fond Hunt in the north ta Morne Anglais in the south; intergrades with A. o. winstoni.

winstonorum (HOLOTYPE MCZ 60467): lowlands of eastern Dominica from Penville in the north ta La Plaine in the south. Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
TypesSyntypes: USNM 10139-10148, USNM 10150-10151, USNM 10153. 
CommentFor illustrations see Lazell, 1962; Lazell, 1972; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985, cover of Herpetofauna 8 (45). Has been synonymized with A. alliaceus (e.g. by GÜNTHER 1888).

This is quite a variable species, see images in Malhotra & Thorpe 1999: 22ff.

Size: max snouth-vent-length (SVL) in mm (male/female): 79/58
Size: max snouth-vent-length (SVL) in mm (male/female): 81/59 (cabritensis)
Size: max snouth-vent-length (SVL) in mm (male/female): 96/64 (montanus)
Size: max snouth-vent-length (SVL) in mm (male/female): 86/64 (winstonorum)

Species group: Ctenonotus bimaculatus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). 
References
  • Andrews, Robin M. 1979. Evolution of life histories: A comparison of Anolis lizards from matched island and mainland habitats Breviora (454): 1-51 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1879. Eleventh contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 18: 261-277.
  • Gorman, G.C. 1969. The zoogeography of Lesser Antillean Anolis lizards; an analysis based upon chromosomes and lactic dehydrogenases Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 138 (3): 53-80. - get paper here
  • Krintler, K. 1986. Dominica - herpetologisches Kleinod in der Karibik. Herpetofauna 8 (45): 26-30 - get paper here
  • Lazell,J.D. 1962. The anoles (Sauria: Iguanidae) of the Eastern Caribbean, Part V. Geographic differentiation in Anolis oculatus on Dominica. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 127: 466-475 - get paper here
  • Lazell,J.D. 1972. The anoles (Sauria: Iguanidae) of the lesser Antilles. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 143 (1): 1-115 - get paper here
  • Losos, J. B. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 528 pp.
  • Malhotra A. Thorpe R S. 1997. Size and shape variation in a Lesser Antillean anole, Anolis oculatus (Sauria: Iguanidae) in relation to habitat. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 60 (1): 53-72 - get paper here
  • Malhotra, A. & Thorpe, R.S. 1999. Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean. MacMillan, London & Oxford
  • Malhotra, A. and R. S. Thorpe. 1992. Anolis oculatus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles No.540. - get paper here
  • Malhotra, A.;Thorpe, R. S. 1991. Microgeographic variation in Anolis oculatus, on the island of Dominica, West Indies Journal of Evolutionary Biology 4: 321-335
  • Malhotra, Anita; Thorpe, Roger S.; Hypolite, Eric; James, Arlington. 2007. A report on the status of the herpetofauna of the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies. Applied Herpetology 4 (2):177-194
  • Malhotra, Anita;Thorpe, Roger S. 1994. Parrallels between island lizards suggests selection on mitochondrial DNA and morphology Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 257: 37-42
  • Malhotra, Anita;Thorpe, Roger S. 1997. Microgeographic variation in scalation of Anolis oculatus (Dominica, West Indies): a multivariate analysis Herpetologica 53 (1): 49-62 - get paper here
  • MICHELS, J.P., AND A.M. BAUER 2004. Some corrections to the scientific names of amphibians and reptiles. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 52: 83–94 [2005] - 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
  • 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
  • Reiprich, W. 2009. Terrarien, Leguane und Co. Iguana-Rundschreiben 22 (2): 5-15
  • Roughgarden, J. 1995. Anolis Lizards of the Caribbean: Ecology, Evolution, and Plate Tectonics. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 200 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.
  • Schwartz,A. & Henderson,R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • Stenson, Andrew G.; Roger S.Thorpe and Anita Malhotra 2004. Evolutionary differentiation of bimaculatus group anoles based on analyses of mtDNA and microsatellite data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32: 1 –10 - get paper here
  • Thorpe, R.S.; Jones, A.G.; Malhotra, A.; Surget-Groba, Y. 2008. Adaptive radiation in Lesser Antillean lizards: molecular phylogenetics and species recognition in the Lesser Antillean dwarf gecko complex, Sphaerodactylus fantasticus. Molecular Ecology 17(6):1489-1504
  • Welzel, Andreas 1981. Die Nachzucht von Anolis oculatus montanus im Terrarium. Herpetofauna 3 (13): 22-24 - get paper here
  • Williams, Ernest E.; Quesnel, Victor C.; Kenny, Julian S.; Underwood,G. 1959. The anoles of the Eastern Caribbean (Sauria, Iguanidae) Part. I. Preface; Part II. Two sibling species of anoles in Trinidad; Part. III. Revisionary notes. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 121 (5): 185-226 + 1 plate - get paper here
  • Zeilfelder, I. 2005. Haltung und Nachzucht von Anolis oculatus winstoni LAZELL 1962. Iguana-Rundschreiben 18 (2): 20-26
 
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