Anolis fuscoauratus
{{Short description|Species of lizard}}
{{speciesbox
| image = Slender-anole-yasuni-ecuador-casey-klebba.jpg
| image_caption = Slender Anole, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = Ibáñez R, Jaramillo C, Köhler G, Gutiérrez-Cárdenas P, Rivas G, Cisneros-Heredia DF, Perez P, Aparicio J, Avila-Pires TCS, Gonzales L (2020). "Anolis fuscoauratus ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T203091A2760203. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/203091/2760203. Downloaded on 29 March 2021.
| genus = Anolis
| species = fuscoauratus
| authority = d'Orbigny in A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837{{NRDB species |genus=Anolis |species=fuscoauratus |access-date=11 September 2021}}
| synonyms = *Anolis fusco-auratus
{{small|d'Orbigny in A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837}}
- Dactyloa (Tropidopilus) fusco-auratus
{{small|— Fitzinger, 1843}} - Anolis viridiaeneus
{{small|W. Peters, 1863}} - Anolis bocourtii
{{small|Cope, 1875}} - Anolis brumetii
{{small|Thominot, 1887}} - Anolis scapularis
{{small|Boulenger, 1908}} - Anolis kugleri
{{small|Roux, 1929}} - Anolis fuscoauratus
{{small|— Rand & Humphrey, 1968}} - Norops fuscoauratus
{{small|— Savage & Guyer, 1989}} - Anolis fuscoauratus
{{small|— Dirksen & De la Riva, 1999}}
}}
Anolis fuscoauratus, commonly known as the slender anole, slender Amazon anole, or brown-eared anole,[http://www.wildherps.com/species/A.fuscoauratus.html Slender Anole], Wild Herps. is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is native to northern South America and Panama.
File:Anolis fuscoauratus 1847.jpg
It was described as a new species in 1837. In 2009 the geographic range of this widespread species was found to extend farther south to Rio de Janeiro State in Brazil.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2009/11/new-lizard-found-in-brazil-reserve.htm |title=New Lizard found in Brazil reserve |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704122207/http://www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2009/11/new-lizard-found-in-brazil-reserve.htm |archive-date=2013-07-04 |url-status=dead |publisher=World Land Trust }}
Names
The specific name, fuscoauratus, is derived from the Latin roots fuscus (combining form, fusco-) meaning "dark" and auratus meaning "golden". The name describes the lizard's morphological characteristic of having a dark gold skin colour.
It is called tai tsjõ in the Kwaza language of Rondônia, Brazil.{{cite thesis |author=Manso, Laura Vicuña Pereira |year=2013 |url=http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:manso-2013 |title=Dicionário da língua Kwazá |type=M.A. dissertation |location=Guajará-Mirim |publisher=Federal University of Rondônia |language=Portuguese}}
Habitat
Behaviour
A. fuscoauratus is arboreal.
Diet
Reproduction
A. fuscoauratus is oviparous.
See also
References
{{Commons category|Anolis fuscoauratus}}
{{Wikispecies|Anolis}}
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Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. ("Anolis fusco-auratus", pp. 48-49).
- d'Orbigny A (1837). In: Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1837). Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles, Tome quatrième [Volume 4]. Paris: Roret. ii + 571 pp. + errata et emendenda. ("Anolis fusco-auratus. D'Orbigny.", new species, pp. 110–111). (in French).
- Silva-Soares T, Scherrer PV, de Castro TM, Salles ROL (2018). "Filling gaps in the geographic distribution of Anolis fuscoauratus d'Orbigny, 1837 (Squamata, Dactyloidae) in the southeastern Brazilian Atlantic Forest". Check List 14 (1): 15–19.
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