Anolis terraealtae BARBOUR, 1915

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Higher Taxa	Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Les Saintes Anole, Les Saines Anole
Synonym	Anolis terrae=altae BARBOUR 1915: 76 Anolis speciosus terraealtae — UNDERWOOD in WILLIAMS et al. 1959 Anolis marmoratus terraealtae — LAZELL 1964: 392 Ctenonotus marmoratus terraealtae — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 115 Anolis marmoratus terraealtae — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 299 Anolis terraealtae — BREUIL 2002 Anolis terraealtae — STENSON et al. 2004 Anolis terraealtae — LORVELEC et al. 2007 Anolis terraealtae — THORPE et al. 2008 Ctenonotus terraealtae — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Ctenonotus terraealtae — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	Terre-de-Haut, Îlet-à-Cabrit, and Grand Ilet, Îles des Saintes. Type locality: “Terre d’en Haut, Isles des Saintes, Guadeloupe, Fr. W.I.”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 10627
Diagnosis
Comment	Species group: Ctenonotus bimaculatus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). Hybridization: A. oculatus and A. terraealtae can interbreed and produce offspring (Weidlich 2023, Anole Annals)
Etymology	Named after Latin terra ‘earth’ and altus, a, um, ‘high’, from Terre de Haut des Saintes, Guadeloupe (Fretey 2023).
References	Barbour, T. 1915. Recent notes regarding West Indian reptiles and amphibians. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 28: 71-78 - get paper here Breuil, H. 2002. Histoire Naturelle des Amphibiens et Reptiles de l’Archipel Guadeloupéen: Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy. Patrimoines naturels 54: 339 pp. FRÉTEY, T. 2023. Etymology of nomina of Amphibians and Reptiles of the French Antilles. Bionomina, 35(1), 20-50 - get paper here Lazell,J.D. 1964. The anoles (Sauria: Iguanidae) of the Guadeloupéen archipelago.. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 131: 359-401 - get paper here Lorvelec, Olivier; Pascal, Michel; Pavis, Claudie; Feldmann, Philippe. 2007. Amphibians and reptiles of the French West Indies: inventory, threats and conservation. Applied Herpetology 4 (2):131-161 - 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. 2013. 1986 Redux: New genera of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) are unwarranted. Zootaxa 3626 (2): 295–299 - get paper here Roughgarden, J. 1995. Anolis Lizards of the Caribbean: Ecology, Evolution, and Plate Tectonics. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 200 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., Barlow, A., Surget-Groba, Y., & Malhotra, A. 2018. Multilocus phylogeny, species age and biogeography of the Lesser Antillean anoles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - 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 - 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.anoleannals.org/2023/10/28/cases-of-interspecific… Google images

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