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Anolis eulaemus BOULENGER, 1908

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Good Anole 
SynonymAnolis eulaemus BOULENGER 1908: 516
Anolis eulaemus — PETERS et al. 1970: 53
Anolis eulaemus — WILLIAMS 1984
Anolis jericoensis AYALA 1986 (nom. nudum fide POE et al. 2009)
Anolis eulaemus — VELASCO et al. 2010
Dactyloa eulaema — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Dactyloa eulaema — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionSW Colombia (incl. Valle del Cauca)

Type locality: Las Pavas, Colombia.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: BMNH 1946.8.13.31 (and possibly additional specimens). 
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CommentDistribution: Not listed for Ecuador by TORRES-CARVAJAL 2001.

Species groups: Dactyloa punctata species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). 
EtymologyNamed after Greek eu (εὖ), well; showing the quality in a high degree + Greek laimos (λαιμός), the throat, gullet. [“...Gular appendage very large, extending posteriorly beyond the thorax...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
References
  • Ayala, S. C. 1986. Saurios de Colombia: Lista actualizada, y distribucion de ejemplares colombianos en los museos. Caldasia 15 (71-75): 555-575 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1908. Descriptions of new batrachians and reptiles discovered by Mr. M. G. Palmer in South-western Colombia. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 2 (12): 515-522 - get paper here
  • Castro-Herrera, F. & Vargas-Salinas, F. 2008. Anfibios y reptiles en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 251 - 277 - 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
  • Poe, S.; Velasco, J.; Miyata, K. & Williams, E.E. 2009. Descriptions of two nomen nudum species of Anolis lizard from Northwestern South America. Breviora (516): 1-16 - get paper here
  • Poe, Steven 2025. A Guide to the Anolis Lizards (Anoles) of Mainland Central and South America. Princeton University Press, 432 pp. - get paper here
  • Rodríguez-Rodríguez, J. D., & Calderón-Espinosa, M. L. 2024. Sexual dimorphism and female ecomorphology in Anolis (Squamata: Anolidae): knowledge of female morphology increases the understanding of Anolis diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blae019 - get paper here
  • Rojas-Morales, Julián Andrés, Héctor Fabio Arias-Monsalve y Gustavo A. González-Durán 2014. Anibios y reptiles de la región centro-sur del departamento de Caldas, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 15 (1): 73-93 - get paper here
  • Valencia-Zuleta A, Jaramillo-Martínez AF, Echeverry-Bocanegra A, Viáfara-Vega R, Hernández-Córdoba O, Cardona-Botero VE, Gutiérrez-Zúñiga J, Castro-Herrera F. 2014. Conservation status of the herpetofauna, protected areas, and current problems in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8 (2): 1–18 (e87) - get paper here
  • Velasco, Julián Andrés; Paul David A. Gutiérrez-Cárdenas & Andrés Quintero-Angel 2010. A new species of Anolis of the aequatorialis group (Squamata: Iguania) from the central Andes of Colombia. The Herpetological Journal 20: 231–236 - get paper here
  • Williams E E 1985. New or problematic Anolis from Colombia. 4. Anolis antioquiae, new species of the Anolis eulaemus subgroup from western Columbia. Breviora (482): 1-9 - get paper here
  • Williams E E; Duellman W E 1984. Anolis fitchi, a new species of the Anolis aequatorialis group from Ecuador and Colombia. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. (10): 257-266 - get paper here
 
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