Anole Or Not Anole?

DSC_0010xTime for everyone’s favorite parlor game. Your AA correspondents are out in the field, and this turned up. So, which is it? And what species, exactly?

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7 Comments

  1. Kevin de Queiroz

    Knowing that you were in Venezuela recently and noting the lack of toe pads, I’ll guess Anolis onca.

  2. Rafael

    Hi…

    I think it’s an Anolis… reduced lamellae, reddish dewlap and xerophytic landscape could be A. onca

  3. Ambika Kamath

    Does it really have only four toes on the hindlimb, or is that just the photograph?

    • It looks to me like the 5th toe (the distal toe on the left hindlimb) is on top and and positioned parallel to branch.

      • Ambika Kamath

        Aah I see it now. The similarity to Sitana would have been ridiculous if it had lost that last toe!

  4. As they say here in Boston, Anolis onker.

  5. Kirsten Nicholson

    Unless you happen to be in the western part of Venezuela and found the very restrictive population of Norops annectens…

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