Anolis scriptus GARMAN, 1887

Find more photos by Google images search:

Higher Taxa	Dactyloidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Anolis scriptus scriptus GARMAN 1887 Anolis scriptus leucophaeus GARMAN 1888 Anolis scriptus mariguanae COCHRAN 1931 Anolis scriptus sularum BARBOUR & SHREVE 1935
Common Names	E: Southern Bahamas Anole, Silver Key Anole
Synonym	Anolis scriptus GARMAN 1887: 28 Anolis albipalpebralis BARBOUR 1916 (fide KLUGE 1984) Anolis scriptus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 338 Anolis scriptus — BRANDLEY & DE QUEIROZ 2004 Ctenonotus scriptus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Ctenonotus scriptus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis scriptus leucophaeus GARMAN 1888 Anolis leucophaeus GARMAN 1888: 109 Anolis moorei COPE 1895: 433 Anolis cinnamomeus COPE 1895: 433 Anolis leucophaeus — ROSEN 1911: 29 Anolis moorei — ROSEN 1911: 29 Anolis scriptus leucophaeus — RAND 1962: 3 Ctenonotus scriptus leucophaeus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 119 Ctenonotus scriptus leucophaeus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Ctenonotus scriptus leucophaeus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis scriptus mariguanae COCHRAN 1931 Anolis leucophaeus mariguanae COCHRAN 1931 Anolis leucophaeus mariguanae — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1946 Anolis scriptus mariguanae — RAND 1962: 3 Ctenonotus scriptus mariguanae — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 119 Ctenonotus scriptus mariguanae — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Ctenonotus scriptus mariguanae — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 Anolis scriptus sularum BARBOUR and SHREVE 1935 Anolis leucophaeus sularum BARBOUR and SHREVE 1935: 354 Anolis leucophaeus sularum — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1946 Anolis scriptus sularum — RAND 1962: 3 Ctenonotus scriptus sularum — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 120 Ctenonotus scriptus sularum — NICHOLSON et al. 2012 Ctenonotus scriptus sularum — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Distribution	Bahamas, Great Inagua, Turks I, Caicos I scriptus: Turks and Caicos Is. Type locality: Silver and Lena Keys, Florida; emended and restricted by Rand, 1962, to Silver Key, Turks and Caicos Islands. leucophaeus: Bahama Is.: Great Inagua I. including Sheep Cay, Little Inagua I. mariguanae: Bahama Is.: Mayaguana I. and Booby Cay. sularum: Bahama Is.: Samana Cay (including Booby Cay), West Plana Cay.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: MCZ 972-73. Lectotype: MCZ 65950, selected by Rand, 1962. Holotype: MCZ 6226 [leucophaeus] Holotype: USNM 81346 [mariguanae] Holotype: MCZ 38013 [sularum] Holotype: MCZ 11954 [albipalpebralis]
Diagnosis
Comment	For illustrations see Cope, 1895 (as Anolis moorei and A. cinnamomeus); Klingel, 1940; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985. Ecomorph class: trunk-ground. A. scriptus has been shown to show selection for body size, relative limb length and toepad size induced by a hurricane (Donihue et al. 2018). Species group: Ctenonotus cristatellus species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012).
References	Barbour, T. 1916. Additional notes on West Indian reptiles and amphibians. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 29: 215-220. - get paper here Barbour, T. and B. Shreve. 1935. Concerning some Bahamian reptiles, with notes on the fauna. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 40: 347-365. Barbour, Thomas & Loveridge, Arthur 1946. First supplement to typical reptiles and amphibians. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 96 (2): 59-214. - get paper here Brandley, M.C. & De Queiroz, K. 2004. Phylogeny, ecomorphological evolution, and historical biogeography of the Anolis cristatellus series. Herpetological Monographs 18: 90-126 - get paper here Cochran, D. M. 1931. New Bahaman reptiles. J. Washington Acad. Sci. Sci. 21: 39-40. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1895. The Batrachia and Reptilia of the University of Pennsylvania West Indian expedition of 1890 and 1891. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 46 [1894]: 429-442 - get paper here Donihue, Colin M.; Anthony Herrel, Anne-Claire Fabre, Ambika Kamath, Anthony J. Geneva, Thomas W. Schoener, Jason J. Kolbe & Jonathan B. Losos 2018. Hurricane-induced selection on the morphology of an island lizard. Nature 560: 88-91 - get paper here Garman, S. 1887. On West Indian reptiles. Iguanidae. Bull. Essex Inst. 19: 25-50. 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 Gorman, George C.;Thomas, Richard;Atkins, Leonard 1968. Intra- and interspecific chromosome variation in the lizard Anolis cristatellus and its closest relatives. Breviora (293): 1-13 - get paper here Klingel,G.C. 1940. The Ocean Island (Inagua). Dodd, Mead Co., NY: xii + 385 pp. Laska, A.L. 1970. The Structural Niche of Anolis scriptus on Inagua. Breviora (349): 1-6 - 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 Rand,A.S. 1962. Anolis scriptus GARMAN 1887, an earlier name for Anolis leucophaeus GARMAN 1888. Breviora (153): 1-5 - get paper here Rosén, Nils 1911. Contributions to the Fauna of the Bahamas I. A general account of the fauna, with remarks on the physiography of the islands. II. The Reptiles III. The Fishes. Lunds univ. arsskrift 7 (5): 1-72 Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Schwartz, A. and Henderson, R.W. 1985. A guide to the identification of the amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies exclusive of Hispaniola. Milwaukee Public Mus., 165 pp. Smith, G. R. 1994. Observations on activity in two lizards (Anolis scriptus and Leiocephalus psammodromus). Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 30 (3): 120-125 - 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
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/jd/jdweb/Herps/species/Forlizards/Anoscrscr.htm https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=c3895a9a079e4aecb20d839c4656203a http://www.anoleannals.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/caicos_anole.jpgphoto: http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/jd/jdweb/Herps/species/Forlizards/Anoscrscr.htminfo: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=c3895a9a079e4aecb20d839c4656203a Google images

Is it interesting? Share with others:

Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator