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Anolis luteosignifer GARMAN, 1888

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cayman Brac Anole 
SynonymAnolis luteosignifer GARMAN 1888: 104
Anolis luteosignifer — GRANT 1941: 26
Anolis sagrei luteosignifer— SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975: 101
Norops sagrei luteosignifer — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 160
Anolis sagrei luteosignifer — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991
Anolis luteosignifer — GRZIMEK et al. 2003
Norops luteosignifer — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops luteosignifer — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionCayman Brac (West Indies)

Type locality: Cayman Is.: Cayman Brac.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: MCZ 6228 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2763 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSpecies group: Norops sagrei species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin luteus = golden yellow, and Latin signifer, bearer of the mark, stamp or seal, apparently after the (dirty) yellow dewlap. 
References
  • Garman, S. 1888. Reptiles and batrachians from the Caymans and from the Bahamas. Collected by Prof. C. J. Maynard for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. Bull. Essex Inst. 20: 101-113 - get paper here
  • Grant, C. 1941. The herpetology of the Cayman Islands. Bulletin of the Institute of Jamaica, Science Series [1940] (2):1-56
  • 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, 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. 2004. Phylogeny of anoles. Herpetological Monographs 18: 37-89 - get paper here
  • Poe, S. 2013. 1986 Redux: New genera of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) are unwarranted. Zootaxa 3626 (2): 295–299 - get paper here
  • Schlager, N. (ed.) 2003. Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, Second Edition. Volume 7: Reptiles. Gale, Thomson, Farmington Hills, 559 pp.
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
 
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