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Can someone who owns a pair of Knight Anoles post pics of their cloacas in order to sex them correctly. Any pics of males and females would help.

Thanks,

R

Hi,

I'll try to post some pics of my male and female when I get a chance, but, in general:

males are larger overall, have larger heads and will show the "hemipenal bulges (sp?)" at the base of their tales when mature

females don't have the bulges at the base of their tails behind the cloaca. I have seen some big females, but generally they are smaller.

Both can have huge dewlaps in my experience.

There are no pre or post anal scales like in the Green Anole or no recognizable color differences overall. I've heard that hatchling males have yellow cross bands that go away as they grow, but I don't know how accurate that is.

Again, I'll try to post some pics in the next few days.

chuck

You are mostly right about the differences between knight anole (Anolis equestris) sexes, but it is a baby female that invariably has 4-5 yellowish or white crossbands. To certain extent this rule applies also to other members of equestris group (6 species and about 27 subspecies recognized so far).

Ivan

males in general have large broad heads and are overall larger, females have a smaller narrow head with there body being smaller as compared to the males. However both certainly do have attitudes in my opinion.