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Cuban Green Anole

Anolis porcatus

Photo by LivanEscudero
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Field Notes

Habitat:

suburban parks, gardens, wooded areas. mainly arboreal.

Notes:

This guy was crawling around this fence at the park eating (I think) ants off of it.
IMPORTANT NOTE ADDED 10/15/17: I IDed this guy based on the reference page as well as the Cuban Green shown in the following page: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herpetology/florida-amphibians-reptil…
In my photo I noticed a bluish tint around the eye, as well as a more patterned skin with green, brown, and bluish stripes less evenly green than I'm used to seeing on Carolina Greens. (see side in pic 2). That is to say to my eyes, the over all color of this one seems slightly different than most Carolina Greens I've seen. However, I recently attended a talk given by scientists studying our local anoles with the "Lizards on the Loose" project. They stated that it is nearly impossible to tell A. porcatus from A. carolinensis without DNA. And that in fact their study is finding that almost all green anoles in this area are either A. carolinensis or hybrids with porcatus and almost no pure porcatus. Thus, for photo or visual IDs they just refer to them as carolinensis. THUS, this spotting may well be an A. carolinensis or carolinensis/porcatus hybrid.

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