| Higher Taxa | Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Escambray Crested Anole, Guamuhaya Anole |
| Synonym | Anolis delafuentei GARRIDO 1982: 132
Anolis delafuentei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 251
Anolis delafuentei — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 368
Norops delafuentei — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops delafuentei — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops delafuentei — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Cuba (Sierra de Trinidad)
Type locality: Topes de Collantes, Sierra de Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus Province, Cuba.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: CZACC (= IZAC = IZ) (not numbered). |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (616 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Species group: Norops sagrei species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).
Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017). |
| Etymology | Named after Marcelo S. de la Fuente, an Argentine herpetological paleontologist. He was at Museo de La Plata, Universidad de la Plata (1995), and now is a member of the Museo de Historia Natural, San Rafael, Mendoza Province, Argentina. |
| References |
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Garrido, O. H. 1982. Nueva especie de Anolis (Lacertilia, Iguanidae) para Cuba. Donana, Acta Vert. 9: 131-137
- Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
- Nicholson, K.E. 2002. Phylogenetic analysis and a test of the current infrageneric classification of Norops (beta Anolis). Herpetological Monographs 16: 93-120 - 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. 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
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
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