''Anolis terraealtae'', the Les Saines anole or Les Saintes anole, (''Anoli des Saintes'' in French) is a species 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
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to the
ﾃ四es des Saintes
The ﾃ四es des Saintes (; ), also known as Les Saintes (, ), is a group of small islands in the archipelago of Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France. It is part of the Canton of Trois-Riviﾃｨres and is divided into two communes: Terre- ...
, islands in
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands窶韮asse-Terre Island, Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galant ...
in the
Caribbean
The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...
.
It was formerly described as a
subspecies
In Taxonomy (biology), biological classification, subspecies (: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (Morphology (biology), morpholog ...
of ''
A. marmoratus''.
References
External links
Anolis terraealtaeat the Reptile Database
Dactyloidae
Endemic fauna of Guadeloupe
Lizards of the Caribbean
Reptiles of ﾃ四es des Saintes
Reptiles described in 1915
Taxa named by Thomas Barbour
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