Anolis ricordii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1837

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Higher Taxa	Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Anolis ricordii ricordii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837 Anolis ricordii leberi WILLIAMS 1965 Anolis ricordii subsolanus SCHWARTZ 1974 Anolis ricordii viculus SCHWARTZ 1974
Common Names	E: Haitian Giant Anole, Haitian Green Anole
Synonym	Anolis Ricordii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 167 Ctenonotus (Semiurus) ricordii — FITZINGER 1843: 64 Xiphosurus ricordii — GRAY 1845: 197 Anolis ricordii — BOULENGER 1885: 22 Semiurus ricordi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 166 Anolis ricordi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 325 Anolis ricordii — NICHOLSON et al. 2005 Xiphosurus ricordi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Xiphosurus ricordii — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis ricordii ricordii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837 Anolis Ricordii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 167 Anolis ricordii ricordii — MERTENS 1939 Semiurus ricordi ricordi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Xiphosurus ricordi ricordi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Xiphosurus ricordii ricordi — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis ricordii leberi WILLIAMS 1965 Anolis ricordii leberi WILLIAMS 1965 Semiurus ricordi leberi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Xiphosurus ricordi leberi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Xiphosurus ricordii leberi — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis ricordii subsolanus SCHWARTZ 1974 Anolis ricordi subsolanus SCHWARTZ 1974 Semiurus ricordi subsolanus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Xiphosurus ricordi subsolanis [sic] — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Xiphosurus ricordii subsolanis — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 (in error) Anolis ricordii viculus SCHWARTZ 1974 Anolis ricordi viculus SCHWARTZ 1974 Semiurus ricordi viculus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Xiphosurus ricordi viculus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Xiphosurus ricordii viculus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	Hispaniola (Haiti, W Dominican Republic) ricordii: northern Haiti and northern República Dominicana, south in Haiti ta Part-au-Prince region, thence east into Sierra de Neiba and southern slopes of Cordillera Central, República Dominicana; intergrades with A. r. viculus at east-central base of Tiburon Peninsula. Altitudinal distribution near sea level ta 4000 ft. Type locality: St.-Domingue; restricted by Schwartz, 1974, to the vicinity of Port-au-Prince, Département de l'Ouest, Haiti. leberi: Haiti, southern slopes of Massif de la Hotte. Type locality: Camp Perrin, Departement du Sud, Haiti. subsolanus: Haiti, southern slopes of Massif de la Selle. Type locality: Source Carroye, near Saltrou, Departement du Sud-Est, Haiti. viculus: Haiti, northern slopes of Massif de la Hotte. Type locality: Castillon, 2500 ft., Departement de la Grand'Anse, Haiti INCERTAE SEDIS: Material from north slope of Massif de la Selle has nat been assigned ta subspecies.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 1272 Holotype: MCZ 80935 [leberi] Holotype: MCZ 130270 [subsolanus] Holotype: USNM 193974 [viculus]
Diagnosis
Comment	Illustrations: Mertens, 1939; Mertens, 1940; Williams, 1962; Williams, 1965; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985. Synonymy partly after BOULENGER 1885. Synonymy: Anolis baleatus has been considered as a synonym of A. ricordii. Species group: Xiphosurus cuvieri species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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 Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1837. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol. 4. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 570 pp. - get paper here Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium, fasciculus primus, Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel, Wien: 106 pp. - get paper here Gray, J. E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 pp. - get paper here Mahler, D. Luke; Shea M. Lambert, Anthony J. Geneva, Julienne Ng, S. Blair Hedges, Jonathan B. Losos, and Richard E. Glor 2016. Discovery of a Giant Chameleon-Like Lizard (Anolis) on Hispaniola and Its Significance to Understanding Replicated Adaptive Radiations. The American Naturalist 188 (3): 357-364, DOI: 10.1086/687566 - get paper here Mertens, R. 1939. Herpetologische Ergebnisse einer Reise nach der Insel Hispaniola, Westindien. Abh. senckenb. naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt) 449: 1-84. Mertens, R. 1940. Zoologische Reisen auf der Insel Hispaniola (from Tierleben der Tropen). Verlag Dr. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 155-241. 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. 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 Schmidt, K. P. 1921. Notes on the herpetology of Santo Domingo. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 44: 7-20. - 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. Schwartz, Albert 1974. An analysis of variation in the Hispaniolan giant anole, Anolis ricordi Duméril and Bibron. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 146 (2): 86-146 - get paper here Williams, E. E. 1962. Notes on Hispaniolan herpetology 6. The giant anoles. Breviora (155):1-15 - get paper here Williams, E. E. 1965. Hispaniolan giant anoles (Sauria, Iguanidae): new data and a new subspecies. Breviora (232): 1-7 - get paper here 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
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