Anolis festae PERACCA, 1904

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Higher Taxa	Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Veronica's Anole
Synonym	Anolis festae PERACCA 1904: 4 Anolis festae – PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 53 Dactyloa festae — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Dactyloa festae — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	W Ecuador (lowlands), Colombia (Nariño) Type locality: Balzar, Ecuador
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MRSN (= MSNTO) R2895; syntype: MSNG 37700
Diagnosis
Comment	Species groups: Dactyloa punctata species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).
Etymology	Named after Dr. Enrico Festa (1868-1939), an Italian zoologist. He visited Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria (1893) and collected in Panama and Ecuador (1895-1898). He worked for Museo e Instituto di Zoologia Sistematica dell'Universita di Torino (1899-1923) as Deputy Assistant Professor (1899), retiring as Honorary Vice Director (Beolens et al. 2011: 89).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Capocaccia, L. 1961. Catalogo dei tipi di Rettili del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova [MSNG]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Giacomo Doria 72: 86-111 - get paper here Cruz-García K, Barreno M, Cuadrado S, Moretta-Urdiales M, Molina-Moreira N, Salas JA, Torres-Domínguez Á, Narváez AE 2023. Amphibians and reptiles of Isla Santay (Durán, Ecuador). Check List 19(3): 347-369 - get paper here Cuadrado, S. S., Loor, Y. A., Zambrano, R. H., & Narváez, A. E. 2023. Species Composition and Ecology of Diurnal Herpetofauna in Agroecosystems of the Ecuadorian Chocó. South American Journal of Herpetology, 29(1), 66-76 Medina-Rangel, Guido F.;, María Alejandra Pinto-E. and Martha L. Calderón-Espinosa 2018. First record of the Veronica´s Anolis Anolis festae (Squamata, Dactyloidae) in Colombia. Herpetology Notes 11: 725-728 - get paper here Miyata, Kenneth I. 2013. Studies on the Ecology and Population Biology of Little Known Ecuadorian Anoles. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 161(2):45-78 - 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 Peracca, M. G. 1904. Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nell Ecuador e regioni vicine. Boll. Mus. Zool. Comp. Anat. Univ. Torino 19 (465): 1-41 - get paper here Pinto-Erazo, M.A., Calderón-Espinosa, M.L., Medina-Rangel, G.F. & Méndez-Galeano, M.A. 2020. Herpetofauna from two municipalities of southwestern Colombia. Biota Colombiana 21(1): 41-57. DOI: 10.21068/c2020.v21n01a04 - get paper here Poe, S. 2013. 1986 Redux: New genera of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) are unwarranted. Zootaxa 3626 (2): 295–299 - get paper here Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.saumfinger.de/anolis_festae.html https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Anolis%20festae Google images

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