from the pages of Floridensis:
Anolis carolinensis, the Carolina inexperienced anole;
Collier county, Florida (15 March 2018).
In Collier county, Florida, most of the Carolina inexperienced anoles sport a reasonably grayish dewlap, that fold of pores and skin below the decrease jaw. Usually, the dewlap for this species is pinkish. Some take into account these regionally-focused “gray-dewlapped” inexperienced anoles to be a definite subspecies (Anolis carolinensis seminolus) separated from the remainder of the Carolina inexperienced anoles, however I’m unsure there’s a lot knowledge to again up an precise subspecies distinction. Appear to me to easily be a phenotypic variation in that exact stretch of south Florida. I additionally discover more-standard pink-dewlapped Carolina greens cohabitating in the identical areas. No matter subspecies designations, I do love coming throughout these incredible variants in Collier county.
Wish to learn extra about gray-dewlapped A. carolinensis? Take a look at earlier Anole Annals publish (this one, which hyperlinks to 2 others).
Professor of Biology and Director of the Residing Earth Collaborative at Washington College in Saint Louis. I’ve spent my complete skilled profession finding out anoles and have found that the extra I find out about anoles, the extra I notice I do not know.
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