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Puerto Rican Anole

jazz710 Mar 19, 2007 11:52 PM

I found this anole in the Carribean National Forest near San Juan Puerto Rico. I'm having trouble ID'ing based on the known anole species stated in the forests records. Any ideas?
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Replies (2)

jazz710 Mar 19, 2007 11:53 PM

Picture: http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/bobpage/Anole.jpg

aero_tiff Mar 20, 2007 11:12 PM

Probably just a common female brown anole. Possibly not listed on the forest's registry of animals because it's invasive; it's native to Cuba, but they've become more common in the southeast US than our native green anole. Seems we have a lot of invasive cubans down here. Here are a few good sites:

http://invasions.bio.utk.edu/invaders/sagrei.html

http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/lizards/anosag.htm

http://www.homestead.com/Anolis/puertolist.html
How helpful this site is without pictures I don't know, but I suppose if you realllllly wanted to you could look up individual species to find the pic. (If I thought it was anything other than a brown anole, I would, but I don't, so I won't.)

Nice pic BTW!

~Tiff

another invasive cuban in south florida:

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