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Barbados Anole

Anolis extremus

Classification

The Barbados anole (Anolis extremus) is a species of lizard belonging to the family Dactyloidae, the anoles. This species was formerly restricted to Barbados but it has been introduced elsewhere around the Caribbean Sea. Taxonomy The Barbados anole was first formally described as Anolis roquet var extremus, a variety of the Martinique anole, in 1887 by the American zoologist Samuel Garman with its type locality given as Bridgetown, Barbados.

Distribution

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