''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 (singular anole ) 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 ...
lizard in the
family
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Dactyloidae
Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles (singular anole ) 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 ...
. The species is found in the
Caribbean
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.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
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In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''richardii'', is in honor of French botanist
Louis Claude Marie Richard.
[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
Grenada is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about north of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and the So ...
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, officially the Ward of Tobago, is an List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, island and Regions and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago, ward within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located northeast of the larger islan ...
.
[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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The fus ...
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 (Pittsburgh), Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by List of people from the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, Pit ...
Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. ("''Anolis richardi''
ic, p. 98).
Dactyloidae
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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