| Higher Taxa | Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Guanica Pallid Anole, Cook's pallid anole, Cook's Anole |
| Synonym | Anolis cristatellus cooki GRANT 1931: 221
Anolis cristatellus cooki — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1946
Anolis cooki — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 242
Anolis cooki — BRANDLEY & DE QUEIROZ 2004
Ctenonotus cooki — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Ctenonotus cooki — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Puerto Rico, Isla Caja de Muertos
Type locality: Punta Brea, southwestern Puerto Rico.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: UMMZ 73645. |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size moderate (SVL in males to 70 mm, in females to 59 mm); 5
rows of loreals; scales between supraorbitals 1; scales between interparietal and supraorbital semicircles 3; 5 postrostrals; 4 postmentals; suboculars in contact with supralabials; dorsals granular, pointed, keeled, 2 middorsal rows slightly enlarged; ventrals large, imbricate, cycloid, keeled; supradigital scales carinate; tail usually uncrested, compressed, verticillate. Dorsum pale (white, yellowish, greenish gray, very pale gray) with black spots; lower sides marbled blackish; a pale, oblique lateral line below which color much lighter; venter whitish with blue-gray and yellow mottling; dewlap orange, rusty orange, brick-red with mustard center, rusty brown, orange-brown (Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 242). |
| Comment | For illustrations see Rivero, 1978.
Ecomorph class: trunk-ground.
Species group: Ctenonotus cristatellus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Melville "Mel" Thurston Cook (1869-1952), a botanist and entomologist who became Director, Insular Experiment Station, Rio Piedras, part of Universidad de Puerto Rico: He joined the faculty of Rutgers University (1910) to teach botany and later moved to the New Jersey College for Women (1918). |
| References |
- Barbour, Thomas & Loveridge, Arthur 1946. First supplement to typical reptiles and amphibians. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 96 (2): 59-214. - get paper here
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Brandley, M.C. & De Queiroz, K. 2004. Phylogeny, ecomorphological evolution, and historical biogeography of the Anolis cristatellus series. Herpetological Monographs 18: 90-126 - get paper here
- Cooper Jr., W.E. 2005. Duration of movement as a lizard foraging movement variable. Herpetologica 61 (4): 363-372 - get paper here
- Gorman, George C.;Thomas, Richard;Atkins, Leonard 1968. Intra- and interspecific chromosome variation in the lizard Anolis cristatellus and its closest relatives. Breviora (293): 1-13 - get paper here
- Grant, C. 1931. A new species and two new sub-species of the genus Anolis. J. Dept. Agric. Puerto Rico 15: 219-222.
- Jenssen, T. A. 1990. Anolis cooki. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (488) - get paper here
- Jenssen, T.A., D.L. Marcellini, C.A. Pague & L.A. Jenssen 1984. Competitive Interference between the Puerto Rican Lizards, Anolis cooki and A. cristatellus Copeia 1984 (4): 853-862. - get paper here
- Nelson, Claire M V, and Terry J Ord. 2022. Identifying Potential Cues of Species Identity in Complex Animal Signals. Animal Behaviour 186: 121–36 - 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
- Rivero, J.A. 1978. Los anfibios y reptiles de Puerto Rico. M. Pareja Montana, 16, Barcelona, Espafia: x + 152 + 148pp.
- Rodríguez-Robles, Javier A.; Tereza Jezkova and Manuel Leal 2008. Genetic structuring in the threatened “Lagartijo del Bosque Seco” (Anolis cooki) from Puerto Rico. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46 (2): 503-514 - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Werning, H. 2012. Zwischen Anolis und Cycluren: Unterwegs auf Puerto Rico. Reptilia (Münster) 17 (95): 100-109 - get paper here
- 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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