| Higher Taxa | Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Blue-eyed grass-bush anole, Monte Verde Anole, Blue-eyed Twig Anole |
| Synonym | Anolis (Dracontura) alutaceus COPE 1861: 212
Anolis alutaceus — BOULENGER 1885: 71
Anolis alutaceus saltatus — PETERS 1970: 217
Anolis alutaceus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 214
Anolis alutaceus — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 282
Anolis alutaceus — NICHOLSON et al. 2005
Anolis alutaceus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Anolis alutaceus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Cuba, Isla de la Juventud
Type locality: Monte Verde, Guantánamo Province, Cuba. Terra typica (fide RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999): Arroyo La Mariposa, Sierra de Trinidad, 4 km NW of Topes de Collantes, Las Villas province, Cuba.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: MCZ 10932; USNM 27485-88 |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size small (SVL in males to 37 mm, in females to 37 mm); habitus attenuate, tail long; totalloreals 29-35; scales between supraorbitals 0-2 (strongly modally 1); 1-4 (mode 2) scales between interparietal and supraorbital semicircles; 7 postrostrals; 2-4 (strongly modally 2) postmentals; head scales with both longitudinal and transverse rugae; dorsals keeled middorsally, in longitudinal rows, their posterior margins truncate; transition from dorsals to granular flank scales abrupt, flank scales about one-quarter size of dorsals; limb scales multicarinate; ventrals usually smooth, occasionally keeled to weakly keeled; tail round in cross-section. Dorsal pattern either: (1) a tan middorsal zone, bounded laterally by sharp, dark brown lines separating the pale dorsal zone from the darker tan to brownish sides; dorsal zone from behind eyes, where deeply indented by a dark brown occipital U, often preceded by dark interocular bar; some dark brown areas on lores and sides of snout, or (2) middorsal pale zone present but not sharply delineated laterally, occipital U less clearly shown and usually represented by a dark occipital blotch; as many as 4 isolated, dark brown flecks or pairs of flecks, sharply contrasting with pale dorsum, arranged paramedially down back; a pair of dark brown lateral scallops just behind sacrum; tail with dark crossbars; a prominent white stripe from below eye to auricular opening usually prominent; venter creamy to tan; dewlap yellow; iris bright blue (Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 214). |
| Comment | Illustrations: Barbour and Ramsden, 1919; Ruibal, 1964; Peters, 1970; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985, Flaschendräger 2002.
Species group: Anolis alutaceus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). |
| References |
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- Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
- Cope, E.D. 1861. Notes and descriptions of anoles. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 208-215. - get paper here
- Flaschendräger, A. 2002. Beobachtungen an Anolis-Arten in der Cordillera de Guaniguanico, Provinz Pinar del Río, West-Kuba. Herpetofauna 24 (138): 5-18 - get paper here
- Fläschendräger, Axel 2017. Beobachtungen an einigen Anolis-Arten im westlichen Kuba. Terraria-Elaphe 2017 (5): 52-63 - get paper here
- Garrido O H 1980. Revision del complejo Anolis alutaceus (Lacertilia: Iguanidae) y descripcion de una nueva especie de Cuba. POEYANA INSTITUTO DE ZOOLOGIA ACADEMIA DE CIENCIAS DE CUBA (No. 201) 1980: 1-41
- Garrido, O. H. and A. R. Estrada. 1989. Nueva especies del complejo Anolis alutaceus (Lacertilia: Iguanidae) para Cuba. Rev. Biol. 3: 57-66.
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- Losos, J. B. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 528 pp. - get paper here
- Losos, Jonathan B., Manuel Leal, Richard E. Glor, Kevin de Queiroz, Paul E. Hertz, Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino, Ada Chamizo Lara, Todd R. Jackman & Allan Larson 2003. Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community. Nature 424: 542-545 - get paper here
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- 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
- Peters, G. 1970. Zur Taxionomie und Zoogeographie der kubanischen anolinen Eidechsen (Reptilia, Iguanide). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 46: 197-234. - get paper here
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- Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes (ed.) 1999. The iguanid lizards of Cuba. University Press of Florida, 428 pp.
- 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
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- Schwartz, A. and Henderson, R.W. 1985. A guide to the identification of the amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies exclusive of Hispaniola. Milwaukee Public Mus., 165 pp.
- Yuan, M. L., M. H. Wake, and I. J. Wang. 2019. Phenotypic integration between claw and toepad traits promotes microhabitat specialization in the Anolis adaptive radiation. Evolution 73: 231–244 - get paper here
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