Anolis smaragdinus BARBOUR & SHREVE, 1935
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Anolis smaragdinus
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| Higher Taxa | Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Anolis smaragdinus smaragdinus BARBOUR & SHREVE 1935 Anolis smaragdinus lerneri OLIVER 1948 |
| Common Names | E: Bahamian Green Anole |
| Synonym | Anolis smaragdinus BARBOUR & SHREVE 1935: 355 Anolis smaragdinus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 344 Anolis smaragdinus — NICHOLSON et al. 2005 Anolis smaragdinus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Anolis smaragdinus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis smaragdinus lerneri OLIVER 1948 Anolis carolinensis lerneri OLIVER 1948 Anolis smaragdinus lerneri — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991 Anolis smaragdinus lerneri — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Anolis smaragdinus lerneri — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Bahamas, Exuma, Little San Salvador, Cat Island smaragdinus: Great Bahama Bank (except islands with other subspecies), Little San Salvador I., Cat I. Type locality: Mortimer's, South Point, Long Island, Bahama Islands. lerneri: Great Bahama Bank: Bimini Is., Berry Is., Andros I.; Type locality: “Southern end of North Bimini Island, Bimini, Bahamas, British West Indies.” |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ 37983. Holotype: AMNH 68635 (not 68535) [lerneri] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. Allied to the Cuban Anolis porcatus from which the new species differs in its much smaller average size and in coloration in life. It lacks the blue head of the adult male porcatus. Preserved immature specimens of the two species are sometimes difficult to separate. Allied also to Anolis carolinensis but differing in many ways, among others in that the frontal and canthal ridges are usually more pronounced while the head scales in general are larger and less strongly keeled, also smaragdinus usually has only three loreal rows of scales while carolinensis usually has four or more. Carolinensis is also, of course, in life usually uniform green when not brown with the dorsal stripe, hence very like the Bahamian species in life. The new form is also related to Anolis brunneus from which species the new one differs in having a much broader, shorter snout (two young rather similar in this character), in often having larger dorsal scales, and in having a very different coloration [Barbour & Shreve 1935: 355]. |
| Comment | For illustrations see Schwartz and Henderson, 1985, Les & Powell 2014. Species group: Anolis carolinensis species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). |
| Etymology | Named after Latin “smaragdinus” for “emerald,” an obvious allusion to the bright green ground color of this species. The name lerneri is a patronym honoring Michael Lerner, founder of the Lerner Marine Laboratory on Bimini, Bahamas (Oliver 1948, Les & Powell 2014). |
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