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Anolis valencienni DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1837

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Jamaican Twig Anole, Short-tail Anole
G: Schwertschwanz-Anolis 
SynonymAnolis Valencienni DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 131
Dactyloa valencienni — FITZINGER 1843: 67
Placopsis ocellata GOSSE 1850: 346
Anolis leucocephalus HALLOWELL 1856: 226
Xiphocercus valenciennii — COPE 1864: 168
Xiphocercus valenciennesii — BOULENGER 1885: 9
Xiphocercus valenciennesii — BARBOUR 1910: 293
Xiphocercus valenciennesi — BARBOUR 1920: 62
Xiphocercus valenciennesi — GRANT 1940: 81
Anolis valenciennessi — ETHERIDGE 1960: 92
Norops valencienni — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 161
Anolis valencienni — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 350
Norops valencienni — NICHOLSON 2002
Anolis valencienni — LOSOS 2007
Norops valencienni — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops valencienni — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionJamaica

Type locality: Unknown. GOSSE (1850, cited in SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975) states “Cave in Southern Westmoreland Parish, Port Antonio”.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 2446
Holotype: ANSP 8035 [Anolis leucocephalus] 
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CommentFor illustrations see Schwartz and Henderson, 1985.

Type species: Anolis Valencienni DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837 is the type species of the genus Xiphocercus FITZINGER (diagnosed by BOULENGER 1885 and later by BARBOUR 1920: 62).

Species group: Norops valencienni species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).

Karyotype: 2n=30, XY (males) or XX (females) (Giovannotti et al. 2016) 
EtymologyNamed after Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865), zoologist, ichthyologist, and conchologist who worked as an Assistant, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 
References
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  • Barbour, Thomas 1920. A note on Xiphocercus. Proc. New England zool. Club 7: 61-63 - get paper here
  • Bartelt, U. 2008. Anolis (Norops) valencienni. Iguana Rundschreiben 21 (2): 31-34
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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
  • Cope, E.D. 1864. Contributions to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 16: 166-181. - 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
  • Etheridge, Richard E. 1960. nan PhD thesis - get paper here
  • Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium, fasciculus primus, Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel, Wien: 106 pp. - get paper here
  • GARNER, AUSTIN M.; MICHAEL C. WILSON, CAITLIN WRIGHT, ANTHONY P. RUSSELL, PETER H. NIEWIAROWSKI & ALI DHINOJWALA. 2022. Parameters of the adhesive setae and setal fields of the Jamaican radiation of anoles (Dactyloidae: Anolis): potential for ecomorphology at the microscopic scale. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 137(1): 85–99. - get paper here
  • Giovannotti, M.; & V. A. Trifonov, & A. Paoletti & I. G. Kichigin & P. C. M. O’Brien & F. Kasai & G. Giovagnoli & B. L. Ng & P. Ruggeri & P. Nisi Cerioni & A. Splendiani & J. C. Pereira, & E. Olmo & W. Rens & V. Caputo Barucchi, & M. A. Ferguson-Smit 2016. New insights into sex chromosome evolution in anole lizards (Reptilia, Dactyloidae). Chromosoma 126 (2): 245–260 | Cite as DOI 10.1007/s00412-016-0585-6 - get paper here
  • Gosse, P. 1850. Description of a new genus and six new species of saurian reptiles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 6: 344-348. - get paper here
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  • KÖHLER, GUNTHER 2014. Characters of external morphology used in Anolis taxonomy—Definition of terms, advice on usage, and illustrated examples. Zootaxa 3774 (2): 201–257 - get paper here
  • Losos, J. B. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 528 pp. - get paper here
  • Losos, J.B. 2007. Detective Work in the West Indies: Integrating Historical and Experimental Approaches to Study Island Lizard Evolution. BioScience 57 (7): 585-597 - get paper here
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  • Rand,A.S. 1967. The ecological distribution of the anoline lizards around Kingston, Jamaica. Breviora (272): 1-18 - get paper here
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  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • Schwartz, A. and Henderson, R.W. 1985. A guide to the identification of the amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies exclusive of Hispaniola. Milwaukee Public Mus., 165 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
  • Wilson, B.S. & Vogel, P. 2000. A survey of the herpetofauna of the Hellshire Hills, Jamaica, including the rediscovery of the Blue-tailed Galliwasp (Celestus duquesneyi Grant). Carib. J. Sci. 36: 244-249
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