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Anolis delafuentei GARRIDO, 1982

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Escambray Crested Anole, Guamuhaya Anole 
SynonymAnolis delafuentei GARRIDO 1982: 132
Anolis delafuentei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 251
Anolis delafuentei — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 368
Norops delafuentei — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops delafuentei — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops delafuentei — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionCuba (Sierra de Trinidad)

Type locality: Topes de Collantes, Sierra de Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus Province, Cuba.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: CZACC (= IZAC = IZ) (not numbered). 
Diagnosis 
CommentSpecies group: Norops sagrei species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).

Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyNamed after Marcelo S. de la Fuente, an Argentine herpetological paleontologist. He was at Museo de La Plata, Universidad de la Plata (1995), and now is a member of the Museo de Historia Natural, San Rafael, Mendoza Province, Argentina. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Garrido, O. H. 1982. Nueva especie de Anolis (Lacertilia, Iguanidae) para Cuba. Donana, Acta Vert. 9: 131-137
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
 
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