Photo: Pedro Genaro Rodriguez, iNaturalist
This week we are going back up the tree to a trunk-crown anole, Anolis chlorocyanus.
The Hispaniolan green anole is endemic to the island of Hispaniola and has been introduced to Florida. The males are bright green, sometimes being mistaken for the American green anole, but dewlaps that have black. Females and juveniles are the same shade of green, but often have darker green lateral stripes.
Photo: sricher, iNaturalist
Hispaniolan green anoles inhabit orchards and gardens, in addition to forests. They are one of the few species of anoles that have been reported to vocalise (as noted in this past post and another found here). Like many other anoles, they are capable of rapid colour change to brown, depending on temperature, mood or other factors.
This anole is also part of an eponymous series with several closely related anoles, and there has been some talk of renaming them as new research is done about their genetics.
Photo: Yolanda M. Leon, iNaturalist
...And also like every other anole. Every week. #DidYouAnole?
- #DidYouAnole – Anolis allogus - December 24, 2021
- #DidYouAnole – Anolis gundlachi - November 12, 2021
- #DidYouAnole – Anolis phyllorhinus - November 5, 2021
Rick Wallach
Attractive little guys. Chelsea, do you know where in Florida they have been seen?
delton howard
Rick, there is one huge colony of these guys in Parkland. iNaturalist has their unobscured observations. They are a blast to find and catch!
Rick Wallach
Parkland? No kidding. Any in the public parks or anywhere else I might look for them without violating anyone’s property? All I need to catch them is a jar full of sphagnum and a nice sized areca palm leaf, stripped down to its main vein and tied into a slipknot at the end. Sometimes you can’t take the kid out of the old man, you know?