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Anolis hispaniolae (KÖHLER, ZIMMER, MCGRATH & HEDGES, 2019)

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAudantia hispaniolae KÖHLER, ZIMMER, MCGRATH & HEDGES 2019
Audantia hispaniolae — KWET 2020 
DistributionDominican Republic

Type locality: El Limón, Peninsula Samaná (19.28929, -69.43118), 30 m, Province Samaná, Dominican Republic  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. SMF 97884, an adult male; collected 21 October 2013 by Gunther Köhler. Field tag number GK-4721.
Paratypes. MNHNSD 23.3602–03, SMF 97878–83, 97885, same collecting data as holotype. All paratypes are adult males except MNHNSD 23.3602, SMF 97878, 97881, 97885 that are adult females. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A species of the genus Audantia (our Species 1 “hispaniolae”) that differs from all congeners by the combination of having (1) smooth ventral scales; (2) male dewlap creme white with yellowish, greenish or orange suffusions, and with heterogeneously distributed, moderately spaced gorgetal scales, that are clutterd in groups, and reduced in size in central portion; (3) dark gular streaks in males present; (4) no patch of enlarged scales in nuchal region; (5) a double row of enlarged, keeled and non-mucronate vertebral scales; (6) usually two sublabial scales in contact with infralabials; (7) 214–244 scales around midbody in males; and (8) keeled scales on dorsal surfaces of upper forelimb and anterior surface of thigh.


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CommentSimilar species: A. cybotes which this species was called before described as A. hispaniolae. See chresonymy in KÖHLER et al. 2019: 50. 
EtymologyThe species name (hispaniolae) is a feminine genitive singular noun, referring to the broad distribution of the species on the island of Hispaniola.
 
References
  • Köhler, Gunther; Caroline Zimmer, Kathleen McGrath, and S. Blair Hedges 2019. A REVISION OF THE GENUS AUDANTIA OF HISPANIOLA WITH DESCRIPTION OF FOUR NEW SPECIES (REPTILIA: SQUAMATA: DACTYLOIDAE). NOVITATES CARIBAEA 14: 1-104 - get paper here
  • Kwet, A. 2020. Liste der im Jahr 2019 neubeschriebenen Reptilien. Elaphe 2020 (3): 44-67
 
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