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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: White Anole
S: Abaniquillo Blanco 
SynonymDactyloa (Anolis) laeviventris WIEGMANN 1834: 47
Anolis wiegmanni FITZINGER 1843: 67 (nom. subst. pro D. laeviventris)
Anolis intermedius PETERS 1863: 143
Anolis nannodes COPE 1864: 173
Anolis laeviventris — COPE 1866: 123
Anolis bourgeaei BOCOURT 1873: 76
Anolis tessellatus O’SHAUGHNESSY 1875
Anolis bourgaei [sic] — BOULENGER 1885: 74
Anolis laeviventris — BOULENGER 1885: 76
Anolis intermedius — BOULENGER 1885: 78
Anolis bourgeaui [sic] — GÜNTHER 1885: 48
Anolis ustus verae-pacis BARBOUR 1932
Anolis ustus ustus – STUART 1935: 43 (part.)
Anolis cortezi STUART 1942: 8
Anolis intermedius — SLEVIN 1942: 464
Anolis limifrons bourgeaei — STUART 1948 (fide SMITH & TAYLOR 1950)
Anolis nannodes — STUART 1948
Anolis stuarti SMITH in SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 63
Anolis laeviventris — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 63
Anolis lemurinus bourgeaei — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 66
Anolis lemurinus bourgeaei — MERTENS 1952: 42
Anolis nannodes — STUART 1963
Anolis laeviventris — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970
Anolis nannodes — PETERS et al. 1970: 60
Anolis lemurinus bourgeaei — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 58
Anolis intermedius — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970
Anolis laeviventris — MEYER & WILSON 1971
Anolis intermedius — FITCH 1973
Norops laeviventris — VILLA et al. 1988
Norops nannodes — VILLA et al. 1988
Norops laeviventris — LINER 1994
Norops lemurinus bourgeaei — LINER 1994
Anolis intermedius — WILLIAMS et al. 1995
Norops bourgeaei — CAMPBELL 1998
Norops laeviventris — KÖHLER 2000: 62
Norops laeviventris — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops intermedius — NICHOLSON 2002
Anolis laeviventris — LINER 2007
Norops laeviventris — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops intermedius — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops laeviventris — MCCRANIE & KÖHLER 2015: 82
Norops laeviventris — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Norops intermedius — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Anolis laeviventris — HEIMES 2022 
DistributionMexico (Chiapas, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Tabasco, Puebla, Oaxaca), NW Guatemala, Honduras (elevation 1150-1900 m), Nicaragua, Costa Rica

Type locality: Mexico. Restricted to Jalapa, Veracruz by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950.

bougeaei: Mexico (Caribbean slope: Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán); N Honduras, El Salvador. Type locality: Huatusco and Orizaba, Veracruz; restricted to Huatusco by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950.

intermedius: Nicaragua, Costa Rica; Type locality: “Veragua”

nannodes: Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, Belize  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 525
Holotype: UMMZ 90542 [cortezi]
Holotype: ZMB 503 [intermedius]
Holotype: MCZ 32324 [veraepacis]
Syntype: USNM 12206 [Anolis nannodes] 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy partly after PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970. The lectotype of Anolis bourgeaei belongs to Norops laeviventris and the Paralectotype to Norops sericeus. Anolis bourgeaei is therefore a junior synonym of N. laeviventris (KÖHLER 2001). According to BAUER et al. 1995: 58 N. laeviventris includes N. intermedius. A. nannodes is not listed in LINER 1994 and listed as synonym of Anolis intermedius by BOULENGER 1885. A. nannodes is a synonym of Norops laeviventris fide KÖHLER 2000. Poe (2016) considers the diagnostic characters suggested by Köhler as insufficient to distinguish between A. laeviventris and kreutzi. Anolis ustus veraepacis has also been synonymized with Anolis lemurinus bourgeaei (Stuart 1955).

Distribution: not in Panama fide Batista et al. 2015. A. intermedius is not in Costa Rica fide Bolaños (pers. comm.), nor in Panama (fide S. Lotzkat, pers. comm, 23 Dec 2015). A. laeviventris not in Yucatan state (Mexico) according to GONZÁLEZ-SÁNCHEZ et al. 2017.

Species group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012).

NCBI taxonID: 323583 [intermedius] 
EtymologyNamed after Latin levis, smooth, smoothed, not rough + Latin ventris, stomach, womb; belly. [“...squamis... abdominalibus sublaevibus...”]. 
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