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Anolis wattsii BOULENGER, 1894

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Watts' Anole 
SynonymAnolis wattsii BOULENGER 1894: 375
Anolis wattsi — UNDERWOOD in WILLIAMS et al. 1959
Anolis wattsi — LAZELL 1962: 460
Anolis alter LAZELL 1962: 463
Anolis wattsi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 354
Anolis wattsi — ROUGHGARDEN 1995
Anolis wattsi — NICHOLSON et al. 2005
Ctenonotus wattsi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Ctenonotus wattsii — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Anolis wattsi — THORPE 2022
Anolis wattsi — THORPE 2022 
DistributionAnguilla, Antigua, St. Martin, St. Eustatius, St. Christopher, Nevis, St. Lucia, Trinidad

wattsi: Antigua and associated isiets; according to Lazell, 1972, "on every coastal cay that supports more than herb stage vegetation"; introduced on St. Lucia at Castries (Botanicai Garden). Type locality: Antigua; restricted to St. John's, St. John Parish, Antigua, by Lazell, 1972.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.8.29.12-.13.
Holotype: UF 12457, paratypes: UF, MCZ [alter] 
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CommentIllustrations: Lazell, 1972; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985.

Subspecies: Anolis wattsi pogus and Anolis wattsi schwartzi have been elevated to full species status. The status of forresti has been considered as unclear (POWELL & HENDERSON 2001) but more recently treated as full species.

The wattsi group of anoles contains wattsi, forresti, pogus, and schwartzi.

Species group: Ctenonotus bimaculatus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Sir Francis Watts (1893), a government analyst and agricultural chemist for the Leeward Islands, based in Antigua, from where he sent specimens of reptiles to the Natural History Museum, London. 
References
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  • 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. 1894. Description of a new Anolis from Antigua, West Indies. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 14: 375-376. - 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.
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  • Fifi, Adam; Renoir J. Auguste 2017. New Localities for the Introduced Anolis wattsi (Squamata: Dactyloidae) on Trinidad, West Indies. Living World 2017: 51 - get paper here
  • Gorman, G.C. 1969. The zoogeography of Lesser Antillean Anolis lizards; an analysis based upon chromosomes and lactic dehydrogenases. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 138 (3): 53-80. - get paper here
  • Heckel, David G.; Jonathan Roughgarden 1979. A Technique For estimating the Size of Lizard Populations. Ecology 60 (5): 966-975 - get paper here
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  • White, G.L. & Hailey, A. 2006. The establishment of Anolis wattsi as a naturalized exotic lizard in Trinidad. Applied Herpetology 3 (1): 11-26 - get paper here
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