Anolis townsendi, Townsend's anole or Cocos Island anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is endemic to Cocos Island in Costa Rica.[2]
Anolis townsendi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Dactyloidae |
Genus: | Anolis |
Species: | A. townsendi
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Binomial name | |
Anolis townsendi Stejneger, 1900
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Synonyms | |
Norops townsendi (Stejneger, 1900) |
Ecology
editA. townsendi is sometimes predated on by the Cocos cuckoo (Coccyzus ferrugineus), a bird and another endemic species of the island.[3]
References
edit- ^ Chaves, G. & Acosta Chaves, V. (2020). "Anolis townsendi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T203123A2760813. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/203123/2760813. Downloaded on 29 March 2021.
- ^ "Anolis townsendi". The Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Anolis&species=townsendi
- ^ Tenorio Brenes, J. (2020). Cocos Cuckoo (Coccyzus ferrugineus), version 2.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, S. M. Billerman, and B. K. Keeney, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.coccuc1.02 retrieved September 25, 2022.