Good luck!
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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James Lazell
That’s not an anole, it’s an anole shadow on the underside of the frond. Try tying a tag on that: not even a sight record!
KarenC
I have a photo of the shadow of a green anole (carolinensis) up on a palm frond that looks a lot like this shadow, but carolinensis seems too easy to be the answer.
Peter Mudde
Well, It might very well be a male ‘Norops’..
Jonathan Losos
Martha Munoz
I’ll take a guess that it’s A. chlorocyanus
Kirsten Nicholson
Could it be Norops sagrei? Oh, *sorry*, “Anolis” sagrei?
Jonathan Losos
Sometimes the simplest answer is the correct one. Good work KarenC–it’s a green anole, Anolis carolinensis. The top anole is from South Carolina, and more specifically from Richard Bernabe Photography’s Facebook page, whereas the lower one, from east Texax, can be viewed at dogwood_springs_photography’s flickr page
Jonathan Losos
This one, from Hawaii, is more recognizable as carolinensis
from https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2534134&l=73261432ef&id=119931444687958