Anolis monticola SHREVE, 1936
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| Higher Taxa | Dactyloidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Anolis monticola monticola SHREVE 1936 Anolis monticola quadrisartus THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1967 |
| Common Names | E: La Hotte Bush Anole, Foothill Anole |
| Synonym | Anolis monticola SHREVE 1936: 93 Anolis monticola — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 304 Anolis monticola — NICHOLSON et al. 2005 Deiroptyx monticola — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Deiroptyx monticola — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis monticola monticola SHREVE 1936 Deiroptyx monticola monticola — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Deiroptyx monticola monticola — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis monticola quadrisartus THOMAS and SCHWARTZ, 1967 Deiroptyx monticola quadrisarta — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Deiroptyx monticola quadrisarta — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Hispaniola (Haiti: Monts Cartaches, Massif de la Hotte, elevation from about 1300 ft. to 4600 ft.) monticola: extreme distal portion of Tiburon Peninsula, on northern and western Massif de la Hotte and Monts Cartaches. Type locality: Northern and eastern foothills, Massif de la Hotte (= Pic Macaya), [elevation] 1000 ft. to 4000 ft., Département de la Grand'Anse, Haiti. quadrisartus: southern and eastern Massif de la Hotte. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ 38296 Holotype: MCZ 62998 [quadrisartus] |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size small (SVL to 48 mm in males, to 39 mm in females); 6-9 rows of loreals; scales between supraorbitals 2-4 (mode 3); 3-6 (mode 4) scales between interparietal and supraorbital semicircles; scales in frontal depression numerous, elongate, keeled; 5 postrostrals; 4 postmentals; suboculars not in contact with supralabials; dorsal scales granular, middorsal 2-3 rows enlarged, keeled, raised into ridge; ventral scales keeled, much larger than dorsals, in transverse rows, imbricate, mucronate; supradigital scales multicarinate; dewlap vestigial, indicated by a slight, longitudinal fold, scales small, keeled. Dorsum (males) dull, greenish yellow middorsally, sides brighter yellow-green, yellow- brown, or pale translucent green; dark dorsal saddles (4 between fore- and hindlimbs) continue diagonally and posteriorly below middorsal zone, much invaded by light color, this giving them at times a longitudinally split appearance; a pair of large, black, light-centered ocelli on nape, as well as a second pair of similar ocelli on the neck (by subspecies); labials and sides of neck with indistinct, pastel blue to blue-green stripe; venter faintly greenish yellow; throat blue to blue-green, yellowish centrally; chin blue to blue-green; limbs greenish yellow with some brown suffusion and banding; tips of digits, palmar and plantar surfaces black; dorsum (females) duller than males, with a simple, zonate pattern of brown, straight-edged or undulate and scalloped (by subspecies), middorsal zone-sides dark; dewlap yellow to reddish orange or blue to light yellowish green (by subspecies) (Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 304). |
| Comment | For illustrations see Williams, 1962 a; Thomas and Schwartz, 1967. Species group: Deiroptyx hendersoni species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). |
| Etymology | The species name, ‘monticola’, is Latin for ‘inhabitant of the mountains’ (Latin “colere” = inhabiting). |
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