I live in South Miami and I found this guy in the shade this morning (on that black thing in the first photo). I never got close enough to take any good photos, but I hope these will do.



He was fairly long, a little longer than a full grown adult male brown anole, but I can't drop the feeling that this was a juvie or sub-adult. The body was significantly stouter than any of the small anole species I've seen (brown, bark, green, etc.).



His eyes were huge, far larger than the anole eyes I'm used to. It has that significant crest and a bit of a dewlap, which isn't visible in the photo. He stood and watched me get close enough to take the photos with my crappy 2x zoom, but he eventually scurried away. There was no territorial display.



The awful thing is that I swear I've seen photos of this guy before on the internet somewhere... but my mind draws a blank. Crown supergiant (I've never seen one)??? Any other ideas???









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