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Anolis lucius DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1837

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cave Anole, Slender Cliff Anole 
SynonymAnolis lucius DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 105
Dactyloa lucius — FITZINGER 1843: 67
Anolis lucius — GRAY 1845: 205
Anolis lucius — BOULENGER 1885: 45
Anolis mertensi AHL 1925: 86 (fide SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988)
Anolis lucius — WILLIAMS 1976
Anolis lucius — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 82
Anolis lucius — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 293
Anolis lucius — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 258
Anolis lucius — NICHOLSON et al. 2005
Anolis lucius — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Anolis lucius — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionCuba

Type locality: Cuba.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 2466 (by monotypy) 
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CommentFor illustrations see Barbour and Ramsden, 1919; Hardy, 1957; Ruibal, 1964; Peters and Schubert, 1968; Peters, 1970.

Species group: Anolis lucius species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). 
EtymologyUnclear. DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837 do not explicitly explain the etymology. However, they provided the common name, L’Anolis Museau de Brochet = Pike-snouted Anolis (from the Latin lucius = pike, as in the fish, whose binomen is Esox lucius). (K. de Queiroz, pers. comm., 22 Oct 2024). 
References
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  • Allen, E.R. & W.T. Neill 1957. The Gecko-Like Habits of Anolis lucius, A Cuban Anole Herpetologica 13 (3): 246-247. - get paper here
  • BAEDERMANN, L. 1989. Vergleichbare Beobachtungen bei Haltung und Zucht kubanischer Höhlenanolis. Sauria 11 (4): 13-17 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Domínguez, Michel; Ana Sanz, Jutih Chávez, and Nilda Almaguer 2010. Cyclical Reproduction in Females of the Cuban Lizard Anolis lucius (Polychrotidae). Herpetologica 66 (4): 443-450 - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hack, R.T.C. 1980. Een vreemde gast van Cuba. Lacerta 38 (12): 118-119 - get paper here
  • Hardy, J.D., Jr. 1957. Observations on the life history of the Cuban lizard, Anolis lucius. Herpetologica 13 (3): 241-45 - get paper here
  • Holanova, V. & Hribal, J. 2004. Two Cuban Anoles - Anolis bartschi and Anolis lucius. Reptilia (GB) (34): 58-64 - get paper here
  • Koopman, K.F. & Ruibal, R. 1955. Cave-fossil vertebrates from Camaguey, Cuba. Breviora (46): 1-8 - get paper here
  • Marrero, Ruben, Tomás M. Rodríguez-Cabrera and Javier Torres. 2015. Anolis lucius (cave anole) maximum elevation. Herpetological Review 46 (1): 87 - get paper here
  • Marrero, Ruben; Javier Torres, and Tomás M. Rodríguez-Cabrera 2016. Winter aggregation in Anolis equestris and A. lucius (Squamata: Dactyloidae), two territorial species from Cuba. Phyllomedusa 15 (2): 181-186 - get paper here
  • Nicholson, K. E., R. E. Glor, J. J. Kolbe, A. Larson, S. B. Hedges, and J. B. Losos 2005. Mainland colonization by island lizards. Journal of Biogeography 32: 929–938 - 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
  • Peters, G. 1970. Zur Taxionomie und Zoogeographie der kubanischen anolinen Eidechsen (Reptilia, Iguanide). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 46: 197-234. - get paper here
  • Peters, G.,and Schubert, R. 1968. Theoretische und praktische Aspekte einer biologischen Expedition durch Kuba. Biol. Schule 8/9:337-46.
  • 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; Valderrama Puente, Maria de J. 1986. Algunos aspectos del nicho estructural y climático de Anolis lucius (Sauria: Iguanidae). Poeyana (319): 1-12
  • 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. 1961. Thermal relations of five species of tropical lizards. Evolution 15: 98-111. - 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
  • Ruibal, R.; Philibosian, R. 1970. Eurythermy and niche expansion in lizards. Copeia 1970 (4): 645-653 - 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.
  • Schwartz, A. and Ogren, L.H. 1956. A collection of reptiles and amphibians from Cuba, with the descriptionof two new forms. Herpetologica 12 (2): 91-110 - get paper here
  • Smith, H. M.;Willis, E. T. 1955. Intraspecific variation in compression of tail in a Cuban lizard, Anolis lucius. Herpetologica 11: 86-87 - get paper here
  • Vergner, Ivan; Polak, Pavel 1996. Kubanische Höhlenanolis (Anolis lucius-Gruppe) in der Natur und im Terrarium. Herpetofauna 18 (103): 05-12 - 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
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