| Higher Taxa | Dactyloidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Anolis smaragdinus smaragdinus BARBOUR & SHREVE 1935
Anolis smaragdinus lerneri OLIVER 1948 |
| Common Names | E: Bahamian Green Anole |
| Synonym | Anolis smaragdinus BARBOUR & SHREVE 1935: 355
Anolis smaragdinus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 344
Anolis smaragdinus — NICHOLSON et al. 2005
Anolis smaragdinus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Anolis smaragdinus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018
Anolis smaragdinus lerneri OLIVER 1948
Anolis carolinensis lerneri OLIVER 1948
Anolis smaragdinus lerneri — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991
Anolis smaragdinus lerneri — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Anolis smaragdinus lerneri — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Bahamas, Exuma, Little San Salvador, Cat Island
smaragdinus: Great Bahama Bank (except islands with other subspecies), Little San Salvador I., Cat I. Type locality: Mortimer's, South Point, Long Island, Bahama Islands.
lerneri: Great Bahama Bank: Bimini Is., Berry Is., Andros I.; Type locality: “Southern end of North Bimini Island, Bimini, Bahamas, British West Indies.”
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ 37983.
Holotype: AMNH 68635 (not 68535) [lerneri] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | For illustrations see Schwartz and Henderson, 1985, Les & Powell 2014.
Species group: Anolis carolinensis species group (fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012). |
| Etymology | Named after Latin “smaragdinus” for “emerald,” an obvious allusion to the bright green ground color of this species. The name lerneri is a patronym honoring Michael Lerner, founder of the Lerner Marine Laboratory on Bimini, Bahamas (Oliver 1948, Les & Powell 2014). |
| References |
- Barbour, T. and B. Shreve. 1935. Concerning some Bahamian reptiles, with notes on the fauna. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 40: 347-365.
- Franz, R., C.K. Dodd, Jr. & D.W. Buden 1993. Distributional Records of Amphibians and Reptiles from the Exuma Islands, Bahamas, Including the First Reports of a Freshwater Turtle and an Introduced Gecko. Carib. J. Sci. 29 (3/4): 165-173.
- Glor, Richard E.; Jonathan B. Losos and Allan Larson 2005. Out of Cuba: Overwater Dispersal and Speciation among Lizards in the Anolis carolinensis Subgroup. Molecular Ecology 14: 2419-2432 - get paper here
- Herrmann, Nicholas C.; Shannan S. Yates, Jason R. Fredette, Molly K. Leavens, Renata Moretti, and R. Graham Reynolds 2018. Lizards on Islands within Islands: Microhabitat Use, Movement, and Cannibalism in Anolis sagrei (Brown Anole) and Anolis smaragdinus (Bahamas Green Anole). CARIBBEAN NATURALIST No. 50:1–17 - get paper here
- Les, Angela M. and Robert Powell. 2014. Anolis smaragdinus Barbour and Shreve - Bahamian Green Anole. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (902): 1-15 - get paper here
- Losos, J.B. 2007. Detective Work in the West Indies: Integrating Historical and Experimental Approaches to Study Island Lizard Evolution. BioScience 57 (7): 585-597 - get paper here
- Nicholson, K. E., R. E. Glor, J. J. Kolbe, A. Larson, S. B. Hedges, and J. B. Losos 2005. Mainland colonization by island lizards. Journal of Biogeography 32: 929–938 - 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
- Oliver,J.A. 1948. The anoline lizards of Bimini, Bahamas. American Museum Novitates (1383): 1-36 - 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.
- 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.
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