Species group · Reptiles
WAnimals has 2 species of anole, in the family Dactyloidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 36 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
The female can store sperm for at least 7 months through a process called amphigonia retardata.
From Green Anole
It is declining locally through competition with the brown anole, an invasive species.
From Green Anole
It eats small insects such as crickets, flies, moths and ants, and also spiders.
From Green Anole
Its arrival on some Florida islets forced the native green anole up into the high branches, and in only fifteen years and twenty generations the pads on its toes grew larger to grip thin branches better: one of the fastest cases of observed evolution documented in a vertebrate.
From Cuban Brown Anole
The Caribbean anoles are the textbook example of adaptive radiation: on each large island the same ecological types evolved independently, with trunk, twig and ground forms almost identical from island to island.
From Cuban Brown Anole
It lays a single egg at a time, but does so every few days throughout the season, a strategy that lets it colonise any new place quickly.
From Cuban Brown Anole