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Eastern Puerto Rican Crested Anole

Photo by MaggieJaicomo
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Field Notes

Description:

Found this doing a dominance display (dewlap and push ups) near a sidewalk along side a few Cuban anoles. Introduced.

Habitat:

Sidewalk railing near some tropical vegetation

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
Scott Frazier
The scientific name of the Puerto Rican crested anole is Anolis cristatellus cristatellus. Please insert this into the space reserved for scientific name (while in edit mode) so that your spotting is marked as identified in the Project Noah spotting database. Thank you.

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PublishedApril 26, 2011

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