Anolis altitudinalis GARRIDO, 1985

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Higher Taxa	Dactyloidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: TURQUINO GREEN-MOTTLED ANOLE
Synonym	Anolis isolepis altitudinalis GARRIDO 1985: 42 Anolis altitudinalis — GARRIDO & HEDGES 2001 Anolis altitudinalis — NICHOLSON et al. 2005 Anolis altitudinalis — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Anolis altitudinalis — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	E Cuba Type locality: Alto del Cardero (1,050 m), Pico Turquino, Sierra Maestra, Santiago de Cuba province (formerly Oriente), Cuba.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CZACC (= IZAC = IZ) (no number given)
Diagnosis
Comment	Species group: Anolis carolinensis species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
References	Garrido, O. H. and S. B. Hedges 2001. A new anole from the northern slope of the Sierra Maestra in eastern Cuba (Squamata: Iguanidae). Journal of Herpetology 35 (3): 378-383 - get paper here Garrido, O.H. 1985. Nueva subespecie de Anolis isolepis (Lacertilia: Iguanidae) para Cuba. Donana, Acta Vert. 12 (1): 41-49. Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Nicholson, K. E., R. E. Glor, J. J. Kolbe, A. Larson, S. B. Hedges, and J. B. Losos 2005. Mainland colonization by island lizards. Journal of Biogeography 32: 929–938 - 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 Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes, Carlos A. Mancina & Vilma Rivalta González 2013. REPTILES OF CUBA: CHECKLIST AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (144): 1-96 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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