For reasons I can’t recall, I stumbled across this stamp on the internet. There are three things wrong with this. What are they? Ok, one of them is more an oddity than a problem, and that’s a pretty easy one. But I bet no one can come up with either of the other two.
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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Thomas Sanger
I may be way off, but isn’t that one of your A. grahami photos? If I am incorrect, please at least tell me that you have one similar to this.
Daniel Scantlebury
Well, I think the only anole found all all three of those islands is A. aeneus (does A. richardi occur on Petite Martinque?), not the A. grahami pictured.
Also, the flower is native to the Greater Antilles. I forget the term, but I believe Jatropha flowers produce male and female structures but they are temporally separated.
Martha Munoz
Clearly the most glaring error is that Anolis is not italicized.
J James
The trunk crown anole (a. grahami) wears Jamaican genes.
The Peregrina is native to Cuba and Hispaniola, (but might well have been transplanted to Aruba).
Jamaica, Aruba and Carriacou/Petite Martinique are separated by a vast Caribbean.
Six East Caribben bucks is way too much on a stamp with an alien creature.
Uwe Bartelt
same picture you find on site 37 in the best anole book 🙂
only so from germany.
Uwe
but Jonathan, I missed the other stamp…..you know
Anthony Salvagno
the most glaring error is that the stamp is $6!!!
Thomas Sanger
One more thing, isn’t this A. grahami aquarum? Is this subspecies found outside of eastern Jamaica?
Yoel Stuart
Nah. That’s grahami grahami. grahami aquarum is all green.
Todd Jackman
I am probably responsible for this as I borrowed the slide of A. grahami from Jonathan in 1996, scanned it in and put it on my website – I’m not sure if this is Kevin de Queiroz’s photo or Jonthan’s – but even Jonathan probably didn’t guess that me posting a fairly high resolution photo on my website in 1996 is what is wrong with this doctored photo (the background photo of Aruba is separate from the dark background original) – Oh, and the flower species named on the right is not what is pictured.
Joe Burgess
For all the reasons already posted AND ….. that picture is worth way more than $6 EC! 🙂
Uwe Bartelt
whats about with palms and ferns?
I think its to dry for them on this islands….
regards
Uwe
Jonathan Losos
Good work, everyone!