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Anolis porcatus (Cuban Green Anole)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Cuban green anole (Anolis porcatus) is a species of anole endemic to Cuba, though introduced populations exist in Florida and on Hispaniola. It is part of the A. carolinensis clade of anoles.
View Wikipedia Record: Anolis porcatus

Infraspecies

Anolis porcatus aracelyae
Anolis porcatus porcatus

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Anolis porcatus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2 grams
Female Weight [1]  2 grams
Female Maturity [1]  8 months 19 days
Male Maturity [1]  8 months 19 days
Gestation [1]  54 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  6
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park II 175430 Cuba  
Buenavista Wetland Reserve 778949 Cuba    
Ciénaga de Zapata National Park 1606900 Cuba  
Pico Mogote Ecological Reserve II 3698 Cuba  
Tuabaquey - Limones Ecological Reserve II 4859 Cuba  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

Predators

Argiope trifasciata (Banded garden spider)[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 3Predation of herps by spiders (Araneae) in the Brazilian Cerrado, Fábio Maffei, Flávio Kulaif Ubaid, Jorge Jim, Herpetology Notes, volume 3: 167-170 (2010)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0