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Issue: Vol. 1501 No. 1: 7 Jun. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-06-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1501.1.1
Page range: 1–30
Abstract views: 99
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A revision of the Venezuelan Anoles I: A new Anolis species from the Andes of Venezuela with the redescription of Anolis jacare Boulenger 1903 (Reptilia: Polychrotidae) and the clarification of the status of Anolis nigropunctatus Williams 1974

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Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Apartado Postal 1930, Caracas 1010-A, Venezuela
Museo de Biología, Universidad del Zulia, Facultad de Ciencias, Grano de Oro, Maracaibo, Estado Zulia, Venezuela
Georeferenciación Anfibios y Reptiles, Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
Museo de Zoología, Programa de Ciencias del Agro y el Mar, Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora, Guanare, Estado Portuguesa, Venezuela
Reptilia Anolis anatoloros n. sp. Anolis jacare Anolis nigrounctatus Colombia New species Polychrotidae Squamata Synonymy Venezuela

Abstract

Anolis nigropunctatus is herein synonymized with Anolis jacare. We redescribe A. jacare on the basis of 40 specimens from Trujillo, Mérida and Táchira states in Venezuela as well as from Norte De Santander in Colombia, thus greatly expanding the known distribution of the species. We describe A. anatoloros n. sp., a new species of Anolis lizard from the Andes of Venezuela that is closely related to A. jacare. This species inhabits the premontane wet forests of the eastern Andean piedmont in the states of Barinas, Portuguesa and Trujillo and is likely a vicariant of A. jacare. The two species differ in dewlap and body coloration as well as in certain details of the head squamation. A. anatoloros sp. nov. is characterized by a turquoise green dewlap, large scales bordering the inner margin of the supraciliar series, usually a higher number of suboculars in contact with supralabials and large scales around the interparietal.

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