Anolis bahorucoensis NOBLE & HASSLER, 1933
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Anolis bahorucoensis
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| Higher Taxa | Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Anolis bahorucoensis bahorucoensis NOBLE & HASSLER 1933 Anolis bahorucoensis southerlandi SCHWARTZ 1978 |
| Common Names | E: Baoruco Long-snouted Anole, Bahoruco Long-snouted Anole |
| Synonym | Anolis bahorucoensis NOBLE & HASSLER 1933: 11 Anolis bahorucoensis — COCHRAN 1941 Anolis bahorucoensis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 221 Anolis bahorucoensis — DOST 2005 Deiroptyx bahorucoensis — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Deiroptyx bahorucoensis — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis bahorucoensis bahorucoensis NOBLE and HASSLER 1933 Deiroptyx bahorucoensis bahorucoensis — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Deiroptyx bahorucoensis bahorucoensis — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis bahorucoensis southerlandi SCHWARTZ 1978 Anolis bahorucoensis southerlandi SCHWARTZ 1978: 357 Anolis bahorucoensis southerlandi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Deiroptyx bahorucoensis southerlandi — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Deiroptyx bahorucoensis southerlandi — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Hispaniola (SE Haiti, SW Dominican Republic), 150 ft. to 4450 ft. bahorucoensis: uplands and north, east, and southeast slopes of the Sierra de Bahoruco, República Dominicana. Type locality: Valle de Polo, Barahona Province, República Dominicana. southerlandi: extreme southeast Haiti, east to Pedernales-Los Arroyos border road. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: AMNH 51128. Holotype: CM (Carnegie Museum of Naural History) 60514 [southerlandi] |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size small (SVL in males to 51 mm, in females to 44 mm); habitus attenuate; 4-8 rows of loreals; scales between supraorbitals 0-2 (mode 1); 2-5 (mode 3) scales between interparietal and supraorbital semicircles; 9-16 scales around interparietal; 2-4 (mode 2) postrostrals; 4-8 postmentals; a band of 2-4 enlarged, keeled middorsal scales; flank scales only one-half to one-third as large as enlarged middorsals; ventral scales smooth, imbricate, 2 to 3 times as long and 3 to 4 times as broad as median dorsals; upper surface of forelimbs with imbricate, keeled scales; crus with small, keeled scales; supradigital scales multicarinate; tail very slender, about 2.5 x SVL, verticillate with about 6 vertical scale rows/verticil. Dorsal pattern in males (by subspecies) composed of: (1) 4-5 bright blue-green diamonds alternating with purplish brown constricting dumbbells; diamonds connected to white-to-cream flank stripe, which is incomplete and lost posteriorly in substripe (coarse brown and white) stippling and is not outlined with dark pigment above or below; short, often dark-edged, lateral bars; nuchal scrolling blue-green, green, or gray; or (2) dorsal diamonds dull, grayish tan alternating with rich brown dumbbells; flank stripe tan to cream, complete or virtually so, outlined above and below by dark pigment; dorsal diamonds abut against flank stripe, not connected to it by short, dark-edged" lateral bars; nuchal scrolling pale green to gray; substripe dotting fine rather than coarse; head dark green to tan, eye-skin pale orange anteriorly; eye followed by black patch, in tum followed by a pale or bright blue or tan (by subspecies) vertical crescent; interparietal pale blue to white; neck blue-green, greenish, or gray; venter green; throat yellow, cream, bright orange, yellow, pale blue, green, white, tan, at times streaked or dotted longitudinally with very dark green to black; tail banded, pale green or pale yellow and dark brown to black; venter tan; females with dark brown middorsal stripe, dark brown sides, at times with orange to rusty lateral scallops or their indications; venter yellow-green to pale green (Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 221). |
| Comment | Illustrations: Cochran, 1941; Williams, 1963 a; Henderson and Schwartz, 1984 a; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985; Fitch and Henderson, 1987, Reptilia [Münster] 9 (1): 78. Species group: Deiroptyx hendersoni species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
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