During July-August 2016, I went for a three-weeks holiday trip to Cuba. Being a Ph.D. student at the Lizard Lab, I had to come back with pictures of… lizards of course. This post is dedicated only to the anole species I observed in Cuba. Any help to ID will be greatly appreciated! More of my pictures of the Cuban herpetofauna (anole and non anole) can be found on my website website.
1- Anolis sp (?)from Cienfuegos.
2- Anolis sagrei – Brown Anole
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3- Anolis allissoni – Allison’s Anole
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3- Anolishomolechis – Cuban White-fanned Anole
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4- Anolis porcatus – Cuban Green Anole
5- Anolis vescus – Purial Bush Anole (??) from Baracoa
The Florida Times-Union from Jacksonville published an article today on Florida invasives that arrived from Cuba. Pasted below is what they have to say about our favorite, the brown or festive anole, Anolis sagrei. You'll have to go to the paper's website to read about the Cuban brown (or festive?) snail and the…
The ninth most viewed page of Anole Annals of all time is dedicated to this beauty, a member of the Anolis equestris species complex. That post referred to a PDF version of a poster with photos of some reptiles and amphibians of Cuba. Luis Diaz, Curator of Herpetology at Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba, recently commented…
I was recently reminded of the paper by Estrada and Silva Rodriguez on the ecological morphology of Cuban anoles. It was one of the first papers to quantitatively examine differences in morphology among a large and ecomorphologically diverse set of species. It was published in Ciencias Biológicas which can be hard…
1) A. sagrei male with a extraordinary dewlap color
3 c) A. porcatus male (or possibly a hybrid with A. allisoni)
5) A. argenteolus (juvenil)
6) A. angusticeps male
The green coloration of the anolia # 6 is real, or lighting effect? Never in my life have I seen a angusticeps with that color !!. A. paternus usually yellowish tones but I’ve never seen in Viñales
Hi Alberto,
Yes, it is a real coloration, no light effect on the picture. The lizard was found in the valley of Viñales. I have 2 more pics of this same individual but I can’t manage to add them to this comment. I’ll try to add them to the main article.
Axel Flaeschendraeger
Hello Arnaud,
1) A. sagrei male with a extraordinary dewlap color
3 c) A. porcatus male (or possibly a hybrid with A. allisoni)
5) A. argenteolus (juvenil)
6) A. angusticeps male
Best wishes Axel
Arnaud Badiane
Hi Axel, thanks for your help!
Alberto R Estrada
Anolis from image 5 is an argenteolus
Do you have more images of Viñale #6?
Alberto R Estrada
The green coloration of the anolia # 6 is real, or lighting effect? Never in my life have I seen a angusticeps with that color !!. A. paternus usually yellowish tones but I’ve never seen in Viñales
Arnaud Badiane
Hi Alberto,
Yes, it is a real coloration, no light effect on the picture. The lizard was found in the valley of Viñales. I have 2 more pics of this same individual but I can’t manage to add them to this comment. I’ll try to add them to the main article.