The Biodiversity Heritage Library just tweeted this figure from
Title
Abbildungen zur Naturgeschichte Brasiliens /
Title Variants:
Alternative: Recueil de planches coloriées d’animaux de Brésil
By
Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867
It’s Plate 44, labelled, as you can see, as Anolis viridis and A. gracilis, but according to the tweet, they are both A. punctatus, male above and female below.
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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