Time 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?
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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Kevin de Queiroz
Knowing that you were in Venezuela recently and noting the lack of toe pads, I’ll guess Anolis onca.
Rafael
Hi…
I think it’s an Anolis… reduced lamellae, reddish dewlap and xerophytic landscape could be A. onca
Ambika Kamath
Does it really have only four toes on the hindlimb, or is that just the photograph?
Anthony Geneva
It looks to me like the 5th toe (the distal toe on the left hindlimb) is on top and and positioned parallel to branch.
Ambika Kamath
Aah I see it now. The similarity to Sitana would have been ridiculous if it had lost that last toe!
Yoel Stuart
As they say here in Boston, Anolis onker.
Kirsten Nicholson
Unless you happen to be in the western part of Venezuela and found the very restrictive population of Norops annectens…