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St. Vincent Bush Anole
Anolis trinitatis Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to St. Vincent, many coastal cays, and Chateaubelair Island, Lesser Antilles. It was introduced via the pet trade in 2004 and is established in Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, Florida (Krysko et al., 2011, Zootaxa 3028: 1–64; Krysko, 2019, Anolis trinitatis. Pages 382–383 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida). Not listed in Meshaka et al. (2022, Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States. University of Florida Press, 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:
1862 Reinhardt, Johannes and Christian F. Lutken. Bidrag til det vestindiske Öriges og navnligen tii de dansk-vestindiske Oers Herpetologie. [Contribution to the Herpetology of the West Indian Islands and in particular to the Danish-West Indian Islands.] Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriskie Forening i Kjöbenhavn [Scientific Notices from the Natural History Association in Copenhagen] 23(10-18):153-291
2011 Krysko, Kenneth L., Joseph P. Burgess, Michael R. Rochford, Christopher R. Gillette, Daniel Cueva, Kevin M. Enge, Louis A. Somma, Jennifer L. Stabile, Dustin C. Smith, Joseph A. Wasilewski, Guy N. Kieckhefer III, Michael C. Granatosky & Stuart V. Nielsen. Verified non-indigenous amphibians and reptiles in Florida from 1863 through 2010: Outlining the invasion process and identifying invasion pathways and stages. Zootaxa 3028(1):1-64
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.
2022 Meshaka, Walter E. Jr., R. Bruce Bury, Suzanne L. Collins, and Malcolm L. McCallum. Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 245pp.

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