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Anolis angusticeps HALLOWELL, 1856

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cuban Twig Anole 
SynonymAnolis augusticeps [sic] HALLOWELL 1856: 228, 237
Anolis angusticeps — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 217
Anolis angusticeps angusticeps — ESTRADA 1998
Anolis angusticeps — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 227
Anolis angusticeps angusticeps — FLASCHENDRÄGER 2002
Anolis angusticeps — NICHOLSON et al. 2005
Anolis angusticeps angusticeps — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Anolis angusticeps — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Anolis angusticeps — DIAZ et al. 2022 
DistributionCuba, Isla de la Juventud, Archipiélago de Sabana-Camagüey, Archipiélago de los Canarreos, Cayos de San Felipe, Archipiélago de los Coborados.

Type locality: Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos Province, Cuba.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 7789 
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CommentIllustrations: Cope, 1895 (as A. oligaspis); Barbour and Ramsden, 1919; Hardy, 1967; Peters and Schubert, 1968, Flaschendräger 2002.

Species group: Anolis angusticeps species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “angustus, -a, -um” = narrow and the abbreviated term “-ceps” for “caput” = head. 
References
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  • Barbour, T. and C. T. Ramsden. 1919. The herpetology of Cuba. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Coll. 47: 69-213. - get paper here
  • CABALLERO, DAYLON FUNDORA; FÉLIX BRAVO CABRERA, AILÍN ABREU PORTALES & ODEY MARTÍNEZ LLÁNES. 2022. Herpetofauna of the Elemento Natural Destacado Dunas de Playa Pilar, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. Reptiles & Amphibians 29(1): 191–194. - get paper here
  • Cooper Jr., W.E. 2005. Duration of movement as a lizard foraging movement variable. Herpetologica 61 (4): 363-372 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1895. The Batrachia and Reptilia of the University of Pennsylvania West Indian expedition of 1890 and 1891. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 46 [1894]: 429-442 - get paper here
  • Díaz LM, Cádiz A, Velazco K, Kawata M. 2022. A new dwarf green anole (Squamata: Dactyloidae) of the Anolis carolinensis species group, from western Cuba. Caribbean Herpetology 84: 1–16 - get paper here
  • Estrada, A.R. 1998. Anfibios y Reptiles Encontrados Durante 1988 y 1989 en Cayo Paredón Grande, Archipiélago de Sabana-Camagüey, Cuba. Carib. J. Sci. 34 (1-2): 106-112
  • Estrada, A.R. & S.B. Hedges 1995. A new species of Anolis (Sauria: Iguanidae) from eastern Cuba. Carib. J. Sci. 31 (1-2): 65-72. - get paper here
  • Flaschendräger, A. 2002. Beobachtungen an Anolis-Arten in der Cordillera de Guaniguanico, Provinz Pinar del Río, West-Kuba. Herpetofauna 24 (138): 5-18 - get paper here
  • Fläschendräger, Axel 2017. Beobachtungen an einigen Anolis-Arten im westlichen Kuba. Terraria-Elaphe 2017 (5): 52-63 - get paper here
  • Franz, R., C.K. Dodd, Jr. & D.W. Buden 1993. Distributional Records of Amphibians and Reptiles from the Exuma Islands, Bahamas, Including the First Reports of a Freshwater Turtle and an Introduced Gecko. Carib. J. Sci. 29 (3/4): 165-173.
  • Hallowell, E. 1856. Notes on reptiles in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 8: 221-238 - get paper here
  • Hardy, J. D. 1967. Geographic variation in the West Indian lizard, Anolis angusticeps, with the description of a new form, Anolis angusticeps paternus, subsp. nov., from the Isle of Pines, Cuba (Reptilia: Iguanidae). Carib. J. Sci. 6: 23-31 [1966]
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  • QUEIROZ, KEVIN DE; JONATHAN M. HUIE & ESTHER M. LANGAN 2023. No longer in doubt: Discovery of a second specimen corroborates the validity of Anolis incredulus Garrido and Moreno 1998 (Reptilia, Iguania). Zootaxa 5284 (1): 121–141 - get paper here
  • Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes (ed.) 1999. The iguanid lizards of Cuba. University Press of Florida, 428 pp.
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