''Anolis richardii'',
commonly known as the Grenada tree anole or Richard's anole, is a
species
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of
anole
Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles () and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay. Instead of treating it as a family, some authorities prefer to treat it as a subfami ...
lizard in the
family
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Dactyloidae
Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles () and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay. Instead of treating it as a family, some authorities prefer to treat it as a subfami ...
. The species is found in the
Caribbean.
Etymology
The
specific name, ''richardii'', is in honor of French botanist
Louis Claude Marie Richard
Louis Claude Marie Richard (19 September 1754 – 6 June 1821) was a French botanist and botanical illustrator.
Richard was born at Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies. On his ...
.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("''Anolis richardii'' ic, p. 220).]
Geographic range
''A. richardii'' is native to
Grenada and the
Grenadines
The Grenadines is a chain of small islands that lie on a line between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Nine are inhabited and open to the public (or ten, if the offshore island of Young Island is counted) ...
islands, and it has been introduced to
Tobago
Tobago () is an island and ward within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located northeast of the larger island of Trinidad and about off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. It also lies to the southeast of Grenada. The offici ...
.
[Malhotra, Anita; Thorpe, Roger S. (1999). ''Reptiles and Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean''. London: Macmillan Education Ltd. . (''Anolis richardii'', pp. 104, 106).]
Description
''A. richardsii'' is large for an anole, with males reaching a maximum length of snout-to-vent. It has a dark green or brown
dorsal
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* Dorsal (anatomy), an anatomical term of location referring to the back or upper side of an organism or parts of an organism
* Dorsal, positioned on top of an aircraft's fuselage
* Dorsal co ...
surface, with a green-gray to yellow ventral surface. Its dewlap is orange, yellow, or gray-green. Females and juveniles often have a yellow or cream-colored lateral stripe.
References
External links
''Anolis richardii''at the
Encyclopedia of Life
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.
''Anolis richardii''at the Reptile Database.
Further reading
*
Boulenger, G.A. (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (''Anolis richardii'', pp. 37–38).
*
Duméril, A.M.C.;
Bibron, G. (1837). ''Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles. Tome quatrième.''
''General Herpetology or Complete Natural History of the Reptiles. Volume 4'' Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. 571 pp. + ''errata et emendanda''. ("''Anolis Richardii'' ", new species, pp. 141–142). (in French).
*Nicholson, Kirsten E.; Crother, Brian I.; Guyer, Craig;
Savage, Jay M. (2012). "It is time for a new classification of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae)". ''Zootaxa'' 3477: 1-108. (''Dactyloa richardii'', new combination).
*
Schwartz, A.;
Thomas, R. (1975). ''A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles''.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as CMNH) is a natural history museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896.
Housing some 22 million ...
Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. ("''Anolis richardi''
ic, p. 98).
Anoles
Lizards of the Caribbean
Fauna of Grenada
Fauna of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Reptiles of Trinidad and Tobago
Reptiles described in 1837
Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril
Taxa named by Gabriel Bibron
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