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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Middle American Smooth Anole, Rodriguez's Anole
S: Abaniquillo de Rodriguez
E: Chiapas Smooth Anole [microlepis]
S: Abaniquillo Liso de Chiapas [microlepis] 
SynonymAnolis rodriquezii BOCOURT 1873: 62
Anolis aureolus COPE 1885: 390
Anolis rodriguezii — BOULENGER 1885: 49
Anolis rodriguezi — GÜNTHER 1885: 45
Anolis aureolus — GÜNTHER 1885: 45
Anolis aureolus — BOULENGER 1885: 49
Anolis acutirostris IVES 1891: 459
Anolis aureolus — BARBOUR & COLE 1906
Anolis acutirostris — BARBOUR & COLE 1906: 149
Anolis aureolus — STUART 1935
Anolis aureolus — GAIGE 1936
Norops limifrons rodriguezi — STUART 1948
Anolis limifrons rodriguezi — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 64
Anolis limifrons microlepis ÁLVAREZ DEL TORO & SMITH 1956: 4
Anolis limifrons rodriguezi — NEILL & ALLEN 1959
Anolis rodriquezii — FITCH et al. 1976: 119
Anolis limifrons microlepis — SMITH & SMITH 1976
Anolis limifrons — ALVAREZ DEL TORO 1982
Norops rodriguezi — VILLA et al. 1988
Norops rodriguezi — LINER 1994
Norops microlepis — LINER 1994
Anolis rodriguezi microlepis — LIEB in FLORES et al. 1995
Norops rodriguezii — KÖHLER 2000: 63
Norops rodriguezi — NICHOLSON 2002
Anolis rodriguezi — LINER 2007
Anolis microlepis — LINER 2007
Anolis microlepis — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008: 43
Anolis rodriquezii — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008: 44
Norops rodriguezi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops rodriguezii — MCCRANIE & KÖHLER 2015: 156
Norops rodriguezii — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Anolis rodriguezii — HEIMES 2022 
DistributionSE Mexico (Yucatan, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Veracruz), Guatemala, Honduras, Belize; elevation: 780-1500 m

Type locality: Panzós, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.

acutirostris: Mexico (Yucatan); Type locality: Citilpech.

aureolus: Mexico; Type locality: Mexico: Cape St. Lucas, Yucatan; A. Schotl; no date.

microlepis: Mexico (Chiapas); Type locality: Mexico: El Ocote, [near Ocozocoautla] Chiapas.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 2411
Holotype: ANSP 7889 [acutirostris]
Syntypes: USNM 24850-24858, INHS (= UIMNH) 40732 [aureolus]
Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 37971; M. Alvarez del Toro; April 15, 1955. [microlepis] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (microlepis). “A member of the limifrons group of Anolis, having small, smooth ventrals, the scales between the supraorbital semicircles much smaller than the scales comprising the semicircles, small keeled dorsals, rugose or keeled head scales, and (presumably, although no males are known) enlarged postanals. Differing from all other forms of the group in having the combination of exceedingly small head scales, especially in frontal depression across the middle of which are counted 7 longitudinal rows between semicircles; scales of upper foreleg exceedingly small (smaller than ventrals, larger than middorsals); middorsal scales virtually not at all enlarged as compared with lateral dorsals; 5-7 enlarged supraoculars, the innermost row consisting of 3 large scales each with a diameter equal to at least half width of supraocular area from semicircles to lateral edge.” (Alvarez del Toro 1956) 
CommentSynonymy partly after SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. Although microlepis has been considered as a synonym of rodriguezii by most recent authors, there seems to be no formal synonymization of the two. However, S. Poe (pers. comm., 5 Nov 2022) examined the holotype of Anolis microlepis and found that it and topotypical specimens are indistinguishable from A. rodriguezii as commonly recognized.

Relative abundance in Honduras: common

Species group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012) 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Juan J. Rodriguez Luna (1840-1916), Director, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Guatemala (1896-1916). 
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