Anolis loysiana (COCTEAU, 1836)

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Higher Taxa	Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Spiny Anole, Peach Anole
Synonym	Acantholis loysiana COCTEAU 1836: 287 Anolis loysiana DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 100 Heteroderma loysianum — FITZINGER 1843: 68 Acantholis loysiana — GRAY 1845: 206 Anolis loysiana — BOULENGER 1885: 42 Anolis loysiana — WILLIAMS 1976: 14 Anolis loysianus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 82 Anolis loysianus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 291 Anolis loysiana — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 243 Anolis loysiana — LOSOS et al. 2003 Anolis loysianus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Anolis loysianus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	Cuba Type locality: Cuba.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 2465 (by monotypy); note that MNHN-RA catalogues indicated "louisiana" and not loysiana
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Comment	For illustrations see Barbour and Ramsden, 1919, Flaschendräger 2002. Species group: Anolis loysianus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). History: the authors are not DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837 as often cited, but rather Cocteau 1836, see de Queiroz (2022) for details.
Etymology	Unclear. Cocteau (in de la Sagra) gives only a cryptic explanation: “Nomen nobis pergratum, nec physiologiae alienum, species haec consecrat.” which may be loosely translate as “A name pleasing to us, not an unusual physiology, consecrates this species.” (K. de Queiroz, pers. comm., 22 Oct 2024).
References	Barbour, T. and C. T. Ramsden. 1919. The herpetology of Cuba. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Coll. 47: 69-213. - 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 Cocteau, J.-T. 1836. Révision de la famille des Anolis, à l’occasion d’un nouveau genre de ce groupe de reptiles sauriens (Achantolis [sic]) rapporté de Cuba par M. de la Sagra. L’Institut 4:286–287 - get paper here DE QUEIROZ, KEVIN. 2022. The Correct Name for the Taxon Ranked as a Family Containing the Genus Anolis under Rank-based Nomenclature and the Author of the Name Anolis loysiana. Herpetological Review 53 (3): 418–420. 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 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 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 Losos, Jonathan B., Manuel Leal, Richard E. Glor, Kevin de Queiroz, Paul E. Hertz, Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino, Ada Chamizo Lara, Todd R. Jackman & Allan Larson 2003. Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community. Nature 424: 542-545 - 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 Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes (ed.) 1999. The iguanid lizards of Cuba. University Press of Florida, 428 pp. Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes, Carlos A. Mancina & Vilma Rivalta González 2013. REPTILES OF CUBA: CHECKLIST AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (144): 1-96 - get paper here Ruibal, R. 1964. An annotated checklist and key to the anoline lizards of Cuba. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 130 (8): 475-520. - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1988. West Indian Amphibian and Reptiles: A Checklist. Milwaukee Publ. Mus. Contr. Biol. Geol. No. 74: 264 pp. - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. WERNING, Heiko 2012. Im Bad mit Anolis – ein Besuch bei Uwe Bartelt. Terraria-Elaphe 2012 (6): 88-92 - get paper here Williams, E. E.; Rand, A. S. 1977. Species recognition, dewlap function and faunal size. American Zoologist 17: 261-270 - get paper here Williams,E.E. 1976. West Indian Anoles: a taxonomic and evolutionary summary. 1. Introduction and a species list. Breviora (440): 1-21 - 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.homestead.com/Anolis/loysianus.html Google images

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