| Higher Taxa | Anolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Red-fanned Rock Anole, Pinardel Rio Anole |
| Synonym | Anolis mestrei BARBOUR & RAMSDEN 1916:19
Anolis cubanus AHL 1925: 87
Anolis allogus mestrei — BARBOUR 1937: 120
Anolis mestrei — SCHWARTZ 1968: 172
Anolis mestrei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 301
Anolis mestrei — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 356
Norops mestrei — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops mestrei — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops mestrei — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Cuba (La Habana, Pinar del Rio)
Type locality: Valle de Luis Lazo, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ 11285. |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size moderate (SVL in males to 56 mm, in females to 46 mm); total loreals 16-36; scales between supraorbitals 0-2 (mode 1); 2-6 scales between interparietal and supraorbital semicircles; 4-6 postrostrals; 2-7 (mode 4) postmentals; suboculars in contact with supralabials; dorsals small, granular; ventrals smooth, in diagonal and transverse rows; posterior superciliaries small and granular, not elongate, keeled; supradigital scales smooth. Dorsum grayish or grayish tan to dark gray or brownish, a greenish cast often apparent; yellowish to orange spots often present; Dewlap very large, white-edged, with extensive brick, orange, reddish brown, maroon, or brownish central or basal blotch crossed by 1-2 yellow to pale orange bars or semicircles, these bars at times absent; iris yellowish (Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 301). |
| Comment | For illustrations see Barbour and Ramsden, 1919; Hardy, 1958; Schwartz, 1968. Synonymy partly after RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999.
Species group: Norops sagrei species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Aristides Mestre y Hevia (1865-1952), a physician, biologist, and anthropologist who workedat the Montane Anthropological Museum, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba (1903). |
| References |
- Ahl, E. 1925. Neue Iguaniden aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Zool. Anz. 62: 85-88
- Barbour, T. and C. T. Ramsden. 1916. A new Anolis from Cuba. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 29:19-20. - get paper here
- Barbour, T. and C. T. Ramsden. 1919. The herpetology of Cuba. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Coll. 47: 69-213. - get paper here
- Barbour,T. 1937. Third list of Antillean reptiles and amphibians. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 82 (2): 77-166 - 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
- Fläschendräger, Axel 2017. Beobachtungen an einigen Anolis-Arten im westlichen Kuba. Terraria-Elaphe 2017 (5): 52-63 - get paper here
- Hardy, J.D., Jr. 1958. Tail prehension and related behavior in a New World lizard. Herpetologica 14 (4): 205-6. - get paper here
- Losos, J. B. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 528 pp. - get paper here
- Losos, Jonathan B., Manuel Leal, Richard E. Glor, Kevin de Queiroz, Paul E. Hertz, Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino, Ada Chamizo Lara, Todd R. Jackman & Allan Larson 2003. Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community. Nature 424: 542-545 - get paper here
- Muñoz, Martha M.; Johanna E. Wegener and Adam C. Algar 2014. Untangling Intra- and Interspecific Effects on Body Size Clines Reveals Divergent Processes Structuring Convergent Patterns in Anolis Lizards. The American Naturalist 184 (5), DOI: 10.1086/678084 - 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. 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
- 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
- Ruibal, R. 1964. An annotated checklist and key to the anoline lizards of Cuba. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 130 (8): 475-520. - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. 1968. The Cuban lizards of the Anolis homolechis complex. Tulane Studies in Zoology 14: 140-184. - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Torres, Javier 2019. Sterility in odd-looking Anolis mestrei (Dactyloidae) living in sympatry with trunk- ground anoles. Anolis Newsletter VII: 283 - get paper here
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