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Issue: Vol. 3120 No. 1: 6 Dec. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-12-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3120.1.2
Page range: 29–42
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of anole related to Anolis altae from Volcán Tenorio, Costa Rica (Reptilia, Squamata, Polychrotidae)

Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Reptilia Anolis Costa Rica new species Polychrotidae Squamata Volcán Tenorio

Abstract

I describe a new species of Anolis related to Anolis (or Norops) altae from Volcán Tenorio, Costa Rica. The new species differs from all other species in the A. altae complex by having the ventral surfaces of body and limbs distinctly reticulated with dark brown pigment and a male dewlap that is dark red with brown blotches, as well as in several morphometric and pholidotic characteristics. It further differs from its geographically nearest congener of this complex, A. monteverde, by having a bilobate hemipenis (unilobate in A. monteverde).

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