Anole Or Not Anole?

DSC_0010xTime for everyone’s favorite parlor game. Your AA correspondents are out in the field, and this turned up. So, which is it? And what species, exactly?

About Jonathan Losos

Professor and Curator of Herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. I've spent my entire professional career studying anoles and have discovered that the more I learn about anoles, the more I realize I don't know.
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7 Responses to Anole Or Not Anole?

  1. Kevin de Queiroz says:

    Knowing that you were in Venezuela recently and noting the lack of toe pads, I’ll guess Anolis onca.

  2. Rafael says:

    Hi…

    I think it’s an Anolis… reduced lamellae, reddish dewlap and xerophytic landscape could be A. onca

  3. Ambika Kamath says:

    Does it really have only four toes on the hindlimb, or is that just the photograph?

  4. Yoel Stuart says:

    As they say here in Boston, Anolis onker.

  5. Kirsten Nicholson says:

    Unless you happen to be in the western part of Venezuela and found the very restrictive population of Norops annectens…

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