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Taxonomy of the family Anolidae Biodiversity of the family Anolidae

Bibliography of the family
Anolidae
(Anoles)

(Reptilia: Sauria)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Ahl, E. 1925. Neue Iguaniden aus dem Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Zoologischer Anzeiger 62: 85-88.

Algar, A.C.; Luke, M.D.; Glor, R.E.; Losos, J.B. 2013. Niche incumbency, dispersal limitation and climate shape geographical distributions in a species-rich island adaptive radiation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22(4): 391-402.

Andrews, R.M. 2018. Changing perspectives on reptile eggs: One biologist's journey from demography to development. Journal of Herpetology 52(3): 243-251.

Armstead, J.V.; Poe, S. 2015. Use of an exemplar versus use of a sample for calculating summary metrics of morphological traits in comparative studies of Anolis lizards. Herpetological Review 46(1): 23-25.

Beltrán, I.C.; Amézquita, A. 2015. First report of tail display during agonistic interaction in an anole species and a comment on its existence in various groups of lizards. Herpetology Notes 8: 357-359.

Boronow, K.E.; Shields, I.H.; Muñoz, M.M. 2018. Parallel behavioral divergence with macrohabitat in Anolis (Squamata: Dactyloidae) lizards from the Dominican Republic. Breviora 561: 1-17.

Echelle, A.A.; Echelle, A.F.; Fitch, H.S. 1971. A comparative analysis of aggressive display in nine species of Costa Rican Anolis. Herpetologica 27: 271-288.

Fitch, H.S.; Echelle, A.F.; Echelle, A.A. 1976. Field observations on rare or little known mainland anoles. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 51(3): 91-128.

Fläschendräger, A.; Wijffels, L. 2009. Anolis. 2nd rev. ed. Natur und Tier-Verlag, Münster. 320 pp.

Fleishman, L.J.; Yeo, A.I.; Pérez, C.W. 2017. Visual acuity and signal color pattern in an Anolis lizard. Journal of Experimental Biology 220(12): 2154-2158

Grant, P.R. 1972. Convergent and divergent character displacement. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 4(1): 39-68.

Hagey, T.J.; Harte, S.; Vickers, M.; Harmon, L.J.; Schwarzkopf, L. 2017. There's more than one way to climb a tree: Limb length and microhabitat use in lizards with toe pads. PLoS ONE 12(9): e0184641

Helmus, M.R.; Luke, M.D.; Losos, J.B. 2014. Island biogeography of the Anthropocene. Nature (London) 513(7519): 543-546.

Henkel, F.W.; Schmidt, W. 2006. Leguane. Biologie, Haltung, Zucht. 2nd rev. ed. Ulmer, Stuttgart. 160 pp.

Heselhaus, R.; Schmidt, M. 1995. Caribbean Anoles. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 64 pp.

Köhler, G. 2014. Characters of external morphology used in Anolis taxonomy - definition of terms, advice on usage, and illustrated examples. Zootaxa 3774(3): 201-257.

Mesquita, D.O.; Colli, G.R.; Pantoja, D.L.; Shepard, D.B.; Vieira, G.H.C.; Vitt, L.J. 2015. Juxtaposition and disturbance: disentangling the determinants of lizard community structure. Biotropica 47(5): 595-605.

Muralidhar, P.; Johnson, M.A. 2017. Sexual selection and sex ratios in Anolis lizards. Journal of Zoology (London) 302(3): 178-183

Ng, J.; Geneva, A.J.; Noll, S.; Glor, R.E. 2017. Signals and speciation: Anolis dewlap color as a reproductive barrier. Journal of Herpetology 51(3): 437–447

Nicholson, K.E.; Crother, B.I.; Guyer, C.; Savage, J.M. 2014. Anole classification: A response to Poe. Zootaxa 3814(1): 109-120.

Nicholson, K.E.; Crother, B.I.; Guyer, C.; Savage, J.M. 2018. Translating a clade based classification into one that is valid under the international code of zoological nomenclature: the case of the lizards of the family Dactyloidae (Order Squamata). Zootaxa 4461(4): 573–586.

Ord, T.J.; Stamps, J.A. 2017. Why does the rate of signal production in ectotherms vary with temperature? Behavioral Ecology 28(5): 1272-1282

Poe, S. 2013. 1986 redux: new genera of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) are unwarranted. Zootaxa 3626(2): 295-299.

Poe, S.; Nieto-Montes de Oca, A.; Torres-Carvajal, O.; Queiroz, K. de; Velasco, J.A.; Truett, B.; Gray, L.; Ryan, M.J.; Köhler, G.; Ayala-Varela, F.; Latella, A. 2017. A phylogenetic, biogeographic, and taxonomic study of all extant species of Anolis (Squamata; Iguanidae). Systematic Biology 66(5): 663–697.

Poe, S.; Nieto-Montes de Oca, A.; Torres-Carvajal, O.; Queiroz, K. de; Velasco, J.A.; Truett, B.; Gray, L.N.; Ryan, M.J.; Köhler, G.; Ayala-Varela, F.; Latella, I. 2017. A phylogenetic, biogeographic, and taxonomic study of all extant species of Anolis (Squamata; Iguanidae). Systematic Biology #

Ribeiro-Júnior, M.A. 2015. Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. I. Dactyloidae, Hoplocercidae, Iguanidae, Leiosauridae, Polychrotidae, Tropiduridae. Zootaxa 3983(1): 1–110.

Roux, J. 1907. Diagnosen neuerer Reptilien aus Asien und Amerika. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 762-765.

Schoener, T.W.; Schoener, A. 1971. Structural habitats of West Indian Anolis lizards. 1. Lowland Jamaica. Breviora 368: 1-52.

Schoener, T.W.; Schoener, A. 1971. Structural habitats of West Indian Anolis lizards. 2. Puerto Rican uplands. Breviora 375: 1-39.

Velasco, J.A.; Villalobos, F.; Diniz-Filho, J.A.F.; Algar, A.C.; Flores-Villela, O.; Köhler, G.; Poe, S.; Martinez-Meyer, E. 2018. Climatic and evolutionary factors shaping geographical gradients of species richness in Anolis lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 123(3): 615–627.

Wijffels, L.C.M. 1959. Over Anolis. Aquarium (Den Haag) 30: 130-134.