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Anolis reconditus UNDERWOOD & WILLIAMS, 1959

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Blue Mountains Anole 
SynonymAnolis reconditus UNDERWOOD & WILLIAMS 1959: 44
Anolis reconditus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 322
Norops reconditus — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops reconditus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops reconditus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionJamaica (Blue Mountains)

Type locality: 4 km. WNW Trinityville, elevation about 760 m, St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 53274. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1186 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentFor illustrations see Underwood and Williams, 1959; Lazell, 1966.

Species group: Norops valencienni species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
References
  • Flaschendräger, A. 1999. Erste Nachzuchtergebnisse bei Anolis reconditus Underwood & Williams, 1959. Herpetofauna 21 (118): 05-10 - get paper here
  • Hicks,R. 1973. New studies on a montane lizard of Jamaica, Anolis reconditus. Breviora (404): 1-23 - get paper here
  • Lazell, J.D., Jr. 1966. Studies on Anolis reconditus Underwood and Williams. Bull. Inst. Jamaica Sci. Ser. 18:1-15.
  • Mitchell, Numi C. 1997. Geographic Distribution. Anolis reconditus. Herpetological Review 28 (4): 209 - 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
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 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
  • Underwood, G. and E. E. Williams. 1959. The anoline lizards of Jamaica. Bull. Inst. Jamaica Sci. Ser. 9: 1-48. - 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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