Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Dactyloidae > Anolis > Anolis sabanusAnolis sabanus (Saban anole)Synonyms: Ctenonotus sabanus The Saban Anole (Anolis sabanus) is a species of anole lizard that is endemic to the island of Saba, a Dutch municipality in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. It is common all over the island. Males can reach a length of 69 mm snout-to-vent. Males have a pale ash-gray to tan ground color on their ventral surface, with irregular dark patches that also extend over the head. Its ventral surface is pale green-yellow to gray. Its dewlap is pale yellow with a green or orange tint. Females are smaller and duller, with less distinct splotches. Females additionally have a mid-dorsal stripe. |
Adult Weight [1] | 3 grams | Female Weight [1] | 3 grams |  | Gestation [1] | 43 days | Litter Size [1] | 2 | Litters / Year [1] | 17 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 7 years | Reproductive Mode [2] | Oviparous | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 1.968 inches (5 cm) |  | Habitat Substrate [2] | Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial |
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Caribbean shrublands |
France, United Kingdom, Dominica, St. Lucia, Netherlands |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Leeward Islands moist forests |
St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Lesser Antillean dry forests |
Grenada, St. Lucia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Saba Marine Park National Marine Park |
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5573 |
Netherlands Antilles |
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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. |
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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 ♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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