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Anolis compressicauda SMITH & KERSTER, 1955

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Malposo Scaly Anole
S: Abanquillo Escamudo 
SynonymAnolis compressicauda SMITH & KERSTER 1955
Norops compressicaudus — GUYER & SAVAGE 1986
Norops compressicauda — LINER 1994
Norops compressicauda — KÖHLER 2000: 62
Norops compressicauda — NICHOLSON 2002
Anolis compressicauda — LINER 2007
Norops compressicauda — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops compressicauda — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Anolis compressicauda — HEIMES 2022 
DistributionSE Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca)

Type locality: La Gloria, Oaxaca, Mexico  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 35625; T. MacDougall; March 11, 1953. 
Diagnosis 
CommentSpecies group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012); Norops tropidonotus complex (with N. compressicauda, N. tropidonotus, N. wampuensis, N. mccraniei, N. wilsoni, N. spilorhipis) fide Köhler et al. 2016.

Distribution: see map in KÖHLER et al. 2016: 27 (Fig. 9). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin compressus, press/squeeze together + Latin cauda, tail (animal); extreme part of anything. [“...tail a little longer than snout-vent length, markedly compressed at least in the male...”]. 
References
  • Aguilar-López, José Luis, Eduardo Pineda, Ricardo Luría-Manzanoand Arístides G. Vinalay. 2015. Anolis (Norops) compressicauda and Craugastor berkenbuschii. Predator-prey interaction. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2(3): 336–337 - get paper here
  • Álvarez DEL TORO, M., & SMITH, H. M. 1956. Notulae herpetologicae Chiapasiae. I. Herpetologica 12: 3-17 - get paper here
  • Booth, E. S. 1959. Amphibians and Reptiles collected in México and Central America from 1952 to 1958 by the Walla Walla College Museum of Natural History. WaIla Walla College Publ. Rept. Biol. Sci. Stat. No. 24, 9 pp.
  • Canseco-Márquez, Luis, and Cynthia Grisell Ramírez-Gonzalez. 2015. New herpetofaunal records for the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2(3): 363–367 - get paper here
  • Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F.
  • García-Padilla E, DeSantis DL, Rocha A, Mata-Silva V, Johnson JD, Wilson LD. 2020. Conserving the Mesoamerican herpetofauna: the most critical case of the priority level one endemic species. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 14(2) [General Section]: 73–132 (e240) - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp.
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  • Köhler, Gunther, Josiah H. Townsend and Claus Bo P. Petersen. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the Norops tropidonotus complex (Squamata, Dactyloidae), with the resurrection of N. spilorhipis (Alvarez del Toro and Smith, 1956) and the description of two new species. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (1): 8–41 - get paper here
  • Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here
  • Mckay, J. Lindley; Olga Milenkaya, Christian Langner 2021. Neue Erkenntnisse zu Arealserweiterungen einiger Reptilienarten des mexikanischen Bundesstaates Oaxaca. Sauria 43 (2): 76-84
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  • Nicholson, K.E. 2002. Phylogenetic analysis and a test of the current infrageneric classification of Norops (beta Anolis). Herpetological Monographs 16: 93-120 - get paper here
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  • 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
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  • Smith, H. M., & KERSTER, H. W. 1955. New and noteworthy Mexican lizards of the genus Anolis. Herpetologica 11: 193-201. - get paper here
 
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