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Anolis Porcatus

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[Scrooge]

Can only post one picture for some reason

Same juvenile animal with more reticulation showing

 

[joshua hall]

Those ain't porcatus

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[Scrooge]

Greetings,
Confirmed population of Porcatus in urban Miami.
These were collected from Sewell park in Miami- confirmed Porcatus population.
Please see eddsmaps.org for other species sightiings/locations
Please see Fred Kraus: Alien reptiles and Amphibians- good reading
Please come to south Florida and enjoy exotic herping while helping the enviroment.
Mature Males in Sewell park have visible ocelli on shoulder, please be careful visiting this area in Miami- known palo mayombe voodoo grounds- good Luck!
PM me if interested in other locations- have helped other fauna members in the past vacationing in Miami.

 

[James L]

That is porcatus. I herp for Anolis regularly in south Florida and find them often in Monroe to Palm Beach County.

 

[krusty]

"...some interesting samples from Miami. Tonia Hsieh caught these in a public park and actually labelled them as “porcatus?” … turns out her taxonomy was spot on, because they have a porcatus mtDNA haplotype (BLASTs right to Western Cuban porcatus – the Linnaeus BLAST in the program Geneious made this very obvious). Interestingly, some of these have novel nuclear haplotypes (meaning when you map them back to the carolinensis genome, you see SNPs and indels that don’t exist in any carolinensis population), which strongly suggests that these individuals are pure porcatus. There were some that had the porcatus mtDNA haplotype and were heterozygous for porcatus/carolinensis nDNA haplotypes, suggesting hybridization. There were also some that had a porcatus mtDNA haplotype and a complete carolinensis nDNA genotype, suggesting multiple generations of back-crossing. I couldn’t find any genetic evidence of porcatus-carolinensis hybridization in the literature, and the small amount of data relegated these findings to a epilogue of a chapter in my dissertation. Perhaps I can publish a short report one day when I get around to it (add it to the list). Anyway, it is my contention that while the existence of porcatus in Florida right now is a purely urban phenomenon, and the species hasn’t made any progress into the Everglades....."

-Marc Tollis excerpt.

Krusty

 

[James L]

Your absolutely correct about them being an urban phenomenon. There existence is easterly in the counties I mentioned. Once you get to natural areas a little more to the west like scrubs, bald cypress strands etc. you won't find porcatus like you would carolinensis. Porcatus seems to enjoy non native landscape plants and palms. They seem to love basking on the trunks of smooth barked palms like royals with there head facing down. Very much like a day gecko. Carolinensis does not bask this way so at even at fist glance based on the plant it's on and the position it's in you can tell if the green anole your looking at is a porcatus or a carolinensis.
If anyone wants to see this species and many more in one place, go to Fairchild Gardens in Miami. It's beautiful and covered with lizards.