Anolis microlepidotus DAVIS, 1954
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Anolis microlepidotus
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| Higher Taxa | Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Guerreran Oak Anole S: Abaniquillo de Encino Guerrense |
| Synonym | Anolis microlepidotus DAVIS 1954: 4 Anolis forbesi SMITH & VAN GELDER 1955 Norops forbesi — LINER 1994 Norops microlepidotus — LINER 1994 Norops microlepidotus — NICHOLSON 2002 Norops forbesi — NICHOLSON 2002 Anolis forbesorum — MICHELS & BAUER 2004 Anolis micropholidotus — POE 2004 (in error) Anolis microlepidotus — LINER 2007 Anolis forbesi — LINER 2007 Anolis forbesi — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008: 42 Norops forbesi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Norops microlepidotus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Anolis microlepidotus — KÖHLER et al. 2014 Norops microlepidotus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Norops forbesi — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis microlepidotus — HEIMES 2022 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca) Type locality: four miles west of Chilpancingo, 5800 feet, Guerrero, Mexico forbesi: Mexico (Puebla); Type locality: 5 miles E. of Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, Mexico. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: TCWC No. 10276, male; Paratypes. TCWC No. 10009, female, 4 mi. W Chilpancingo, 5800 ft.; INHS (= UIMNH) No. 20127, female, Chilpancingo. Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 35553; L.T. Forbes; December 30, 1953 [forbesi] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A small species of Anolis that differs from all other Mexican and Central American congeners by the combination of having (1) keeled ventral scales; (2) small middorsal scales (22–40 dorsal scales in one head length; 65–84 dorsal scales between levels of axilla and groin); (3) hind legs relatively short (fourth toe of adpressed hind leg reaching to ear opening or to a point between ear opening and eye; ratio of shank length/SVL 0.22–0.25); (4) flank scales usually somewhat heterogeneous with enlarged scales scattered among small flank scales; (5) postcloacal scales in males moderately to greatly enlarged or not enlarged at all; (6) male dewlap dull orange yellow with paler semicircular streaks and blotches (Fig. 9). Among the Anolis species treated in this contribution, A. microlepidotus is most similar to A. nebulosus from which it differs in male dewlap coloration (dull orange yellow with paler semicircular streaks and blotches in A. microlepidotus vs. uniform orange or orange with a white anterior margin in A. nebulosus) and smaller dorsal scales (number of dorsal scales in one head length 32–48, mean 41.2, in A. microlepidotus vs. 26–38, mean 30.0, in A. nebulosus) (KÖHLER et al. 2014, but see additional diagnosis in Köhler et al. 2014: 56). |
| Comment | Species group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012) Synonymy: Köhler et al. 2014 synonymized A. forbesi with A. microlepidotus. |
| Etymology | Named after the small dorsal scales. A. forbesi was named after Mr. and Mrs. Dyfrig McH. Forbes. |
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