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Crested Anole
Anolis cristatellus Duméril and Bibron, 1837

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to Puerto Rico (including many offshore islands), Dominica, and the British and United States Virgin Islands. It was introduced in Highlands County, Florida (Lawson, et al. 2019, Herpetological Review 50: 524) and is established in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties in Florida (Brach, 1977, Copeia 1977: 184–185; Camposano and Krysko, 2019, Anolis cristatellus. Pages 370–372 in Krysko et al. (Editors). Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida). Use of the subgeneric name follows Poe et al. (2017, Systematic Biology 66: 663–697).

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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1837 Dumeril, A. M. Constant and Gabriel Bibron. Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete Des Reptiles. Tome Quatrime. [General Herpetology or Complete Natural History of Reptiles. Volume Four.] Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, France. 571pp.
1977 Brach, V. Notes on the Introduced Population of Anolis cristatellus in South Florida. Copeia 1977(1):184-18
2017 Poe, Steven, A., Adrián Nieto-montes de Oca, Omar Torres-carvajal, Kevin De Queiroz, Julián A. Velasco, Brad Truett, Levi N. Gray, Mason J. Ryan, Gunther Köhler, Fernando Ayala-varela, and Ian Latella A phylogenetic, biogeographic, and taxonomic study of all extant species of Anolis (Squamata; Iguanidae). Systematic Biology 66(5):663–697
2019 Krysko, Kenneth L., Kevin M. Enge, and Paul E. Moler (Editor) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 728pp.
2019 Lawson, G. R., A. W. Norden, and B. B. Rothermel. Geographic Distribution: Anolis cristatellus (Crested Anole). Herpetological Review 50(4):524

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