In a recent post on the newly described Anolis triumphalis, I stated that the Reptile Database listed 400 anole species. It turns out I was mistaken. Fortunately, Claus Petesen and Peter Uetz have set the record straight in the comments: A. triumphalis makes 396. Four to go! Everyone get out there and find some new ones!
Professor of Biology and Director of the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in Saint Louis. 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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Peter Uetz
Gunter Köhler and colleagues actually just produced another 2, Norops (A.) alocomyos and Norops (A.) leditzigorum from Costa Rica, which makes 398 anoles, i.e. 2 to go 🙂
http://www.mesoamericanherpetology.com/uploads/3/5/0/0/3500871/kohler_et_al_paper.pdf
Peter Mudde
I might be a bit cynical, but sometimes I can’t get past thinking some species are a result of data-mining.