Over the years, many talks on anole dewlaps have featured an image from Nicholson et al.’s 2007 paper from PLoS One on anole dewlap evolution (I saw this image at least once at JMIH this year). Now that its been almost five years since this image was published, I think its time we came up with a new collage of anole dewlaps. Which dewlaps should we include? Who’s got dewlap photos to share for the effort? If you’ve got some nice photos to share for the collage please post them here at Anole Annals and I’ll put them all together to generate our anole community dewlap collage! See the guidelines for posting for instructions on how to post images as part of a comment. (For my part, I’ve accumulated lots of photos from the Greater Antilles, but have almost nothing from the mainland or the Lesser Antilles.)
- JMIH 2014: Early Records of Fossil Anolis from the Oligocene and Miocene of Florida, USA - August 13, 2014
- JMIH 2014: Relative Contribution of Genetic and Ecological Factors to Morphological Differentiation in Island Populations of Anolis sagrei - August 7, 2014
- JMIH 2014: The Ultrastructure of Spermatid Development within the Anole, Anolis sagrei - August 5, 2014
Joe Burgess
Does the dewlap have to be mechanically extended?
Rich Glor
I don’t think so, as long as we can see the whole thing.
Rich Glor
Here are few images to get us started:
Anolis coelestinus from the Sierra de Bahoruco (GLOR 7444)
Anolis ricordii from the Sierra de Bahoruco (GLOR 7791)
Melissa Woolley
Here are a few from Luke Mahler
Anolis proboscis, equatorialis, fraseri, and gemmosus.
Anolis lyra
Melissa Woolley
And a few that I recently took of Anolis fitchi (female and male), and Anolis orcesi (female and male)
Rich Glor
These mainland dewlaps are pretty sweet. Anolis fitchi looks like it could rival A. christophei in a dewlap size contest!
Juan Manuel Cardona Granda
Check Anolis mariarum dewlap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caranpaima/5316755273/