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Anolis caudalis COCHRAN, 1932

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Higher TaxaDactyloidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gonave Gracile Anole, Cochran's Gianthead Anole 
SynonymAnolis dominicensis caudalis COCHRAN 1932:185
Anolis distichus caudalis — COCHRAN 1941
Anolis distichus caudalis — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1946
Anolis brevirostris caudalis SCHWARTZ 1968
Anolis caudalis — ARNOLD 1980
Anolis caudalis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 233
Anolis caudalis — NICHOLSON et al. 2005
Ctenonotus caudalis — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Ctenonotus caudalis — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionHispaniola (Haiti: coast of Golfe de la Gonave), Ile de la Petite Gonave, Ile a Cabrit

Type locality: Nan Café, Ile de la Gonâve, Haiti.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 76801, immature male, collected March 1929 by A.J. Poole and W.M. Perrygo. Paratypes: USNM 
DiagnosisDESCRIPTION: Size small (SVL in males to 48 mm, in females to 44 mm); 3-7
(strongly modally 4) rows of loreals; 0-3 (mode 1) scales between interparietal and supraorbital semicircles; 0-2 (mode 0) scales in contact with interparietal; 2-8 (mode 4) postmentals; interparietal usually bordered anteriorly by small scales; 2-4 (strongly modally 2) scales in lateral contact with postfrontals; snout scales rectangular and generally paired with 0-4 (mode 2) azygous scales present; dorsal scales granular; ventral scales smooth, imbricate; supradigital scales smooth; tail compressed, verticillate, 5-6 scales/verticil, 4 triangular, keeled, pointed scales middorsally/verticil. Dorsum medium brown to light gray-tan or light gray; nuchal patch medium, dark with white border; venter pale yellow; dewlap variable (monochromatic) white, yellow, yellow-gray, (dichromatic) yellow with red or orange center, gray-green with rust center (Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 233). 
CommentIllustrations: Cochran, 1941; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985.

Species group: Ctenonotus distichus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). 
References
  • Arnold, D. L. 1980. Geographic variation in Anolis brevirostris (Sauria: Iguanidae) in Hispaniola. Breviora (461): 1-31 - get paper here
  • Barbour, Thomas & Loveridge, Arthur 1946. First supplement to typical reptiles and amphibians. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 96 (2): 59-214. - get paper here
  • Cochran, D. M. 1932. Two new lizards from Hispaniola. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 45:183-187. - get paper here
  • Cochran, D.M. 1941. The herpetology of Hispaniola. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 177: vii + 398 pp. - 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
  • Schwartz, A. 1968. Geographic variation in Anolis distichus Cope (Lacertilia, Iguanidae) in the Bahama Islands and Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 137 (2): 255-309 - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • 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.
 
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