New Species Of Chamaeleolis!
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 8:13
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AA contributor and anole breeder extraordinaire Veronika Holáňová and colleagues have just described a new species of Chamaeleolis, Anolis sierramaestrae, from–where else?–the Sierra Maestra of eastern Cuba. The species, described in a paper just published in Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, differs in a variety of scalation details from the other five species in this group, and the paper includes a very useful pictorial guide to distinguishing among them.
In addition, check out this nifty x-ray.
2013-01-15 08:03:50
Source: http://www.anoleannals.org/2013/01/15/new-species-of-chamaeleolis/
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