''Anolis richardii'',
commonly known as the Grenada tree anole or Richard's anole, is a
species
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of
anole
Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles () and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay. Instead of treating it as a family, some authorities prefer to treat it as a subfami ...
lizard in the
family
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Dactyloidae
Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles () and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay. Instead of treating it as a family, some authorities prefer to treat it as a subfami ...
. The species is found in the
Caribbean
The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''richardii'', is in honor of French botanist
Louis Claude Marie Richard
Louis Claude Marie Richard (19 September 1754 – 6 June 1821) was a French botanist and botanical illustrator.
Richard was born at Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical specimens in Central America and the West Indies. On his r ...
.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("''Anolis richardii'' ic, p. 220).]
Geographic range
''A. richardii'' is native to
Grenada
Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...
and the
Grenadines
The Grenadines is a chain of small islands that lie on a line between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Nine are inhabited and open to the public (or ten, if the offshore island of Young Island is counted): ...
islands, and it has been introduced to
Tobago
Tobago () is an List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, island and Regions and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago, ward within the Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located northeast of the larger island of Trini ...
.
[Malhotra, Anita; Thorpe, Roger S. (1999). ''Reptiles and Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean''. London: Macmillan Education Ltd. . (''Anolis richardii'', pp. 104, 106).]
Description
''A. richardsii'' is large for an anole, with males reaching a maximum length of snout-to-vent. It has a dark green or brown
dorsal
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* Dorsal (anatomy), an anatomical term of location referring to the back or upper side of an organism or parts of an organism
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* Dorsal co ...
surface, with a green-gray to yellow ventral surface. Its dewlap is orange, yellow, or gray-green. Females and juveniles often have a yellow or cream-colored lateral stripe.
References
External links
''Anolis richardii''at the
Encyclopedia of Life
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.
''Anolis richardii''at the Reptile Database.
Further reading
*
Boulenger, G.A. (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (''Anolis richardii'', pp. 37–38).
*
Duméril, A.M.C.;
Bibron, G. (1837). ''Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles. Tome quatrième.''
''General Herpetology or Complete Natural History of the Reptiles. Volume 4'' Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. 571 pp. + ''errata et emendanda''. ("''Anolis Richardii'' ", new species, pp. 141–142). (in French).
*Nicholson, Kirsten E.; Crother, Brian I.; Guyer, Craig;
Savage, Jay M. (2012). "It is time for a new classification of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae)". ''Zootaxa'' 3477: 1-108. (''Dactyloa richardii'', new combination).
*
Schwartz, A.;
Thomas, R. (1975). ''A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles''.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as CMNH) is a natural history museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896.
Housing some 22 millio ...
Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. ("''Anolis richardi''
ic, p. 98).
Anoles
Lizards of the Caribbean
Fauna of Grenada
Fauna of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Reptiles of Trinidad and Tobago
Reptiles described in 1837
Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril
Taxa named by Gabriel Bibron
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