Bill Schlesinger, one of the world’s most eminent biogeochemists and President Emeritus of the Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies, turns out to have an eagle eye for anoles. While on a birding trip to Puerto Rico, his wife, writer Lisa Dellwo, snapped the photos below in the rainforest in the west central part of the island. Which species are they?
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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Liam Revell
These both look like Anolis cristatellus to me. Without having them in hand, it is difficult to definitively exclude A. gundlachi, but my money is with A. cristatellus. Any more information on locality?
The color pattern of the first animal is pretty & it is one that we have seen on A. cristatellus.
Lisa Dellwo
Thanks for your help with this i.d. Our hosts asked me for copies of these photos, and we hoped to include the species name as a caption. We were in a guesthouse on Rt. 149 a few miles north of its intersection with 533.