THE ANGLES (SAURIA, IGUANIDAE) OF THE LESSER ANTILLES JAMES D. LAZELL, JR. CONTENTS Foreword 1 The Lesser Antilles: An Introduction __. — 2 Materials, Methods, Tenns, and Concepts 9 Systematics 19 Anolis acuius Hallowell 23 Anolis wattsi Boulenger 26 Anolis sabanus Garman 42 Anolis fiingivinus Cope — 44 Anolis bimactdatiis (Sparrmann) 49 Anolis niibihis Garman -54 Anolis lividus Garman 56 Anolis marmoratiis Dumeril and Bibron ___. 58 Anolis oculatiis (Cope) 64 Anolis luciae Garman 71 Anolis ^riseus Gannan 73 Anolis richaidi Dumeril and Bibron 74 Anolis trinitatis Reinhardt and Liitken 77 Anolis acncus Gray 79 Anolis extremus Gannan 84 Anolis roquet (Lacepede) 85 E\olution 94 Bibliography 105 Appendix: Parat>'pes of New Forms 108 Index 1 10 FOREWORD This work goes to print somewhat modified from the doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Rhode Island in Ma)', 1968. The principal modi-fications have been deletions. Originally written as "the iguanid lizards of the Lesser ^ Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, Mass. 01773. Antilles," the entire section on Iguana — the onl\' other living genus — has been removed and will be pubHshed elsewhere. A scathing critique of mathematical ap-proaches to island biogeograph\-has been cut, simply because my emotional involve-ment against that nefarious pseudoscience precluded a report that was not \indicti\e and vitriolic. Most important to me, what runv follows seems dry, dull, and stultifying. I tried not to write it that way, for I firml\-believe that unless scientists can make their work interesting, or even entertaining, it will not be read, even by their colleagues and fellow specialists. As I read over these pages now, I find scant allusion to what it was like to spend a decade — in the field and in the lab — getting to know this re-markable fauna. Gone from these pages are the perils of caclin bush and huge vipers; nothing remains of giant boas and Cicero parrots; there is no more the taste of salt and blood on the rocks in the surf at Pelikan Cay or Kick-'em-Jenny. Counting subdigital lamellae, or arguing o\er the best possible species definition, is dull work indeed. Sadly, that is about all that now remains. It has been over tw o years since the last revision of this work was done for the Universit)-of Rhode Island. I ha\e long moved on to a stud\-of the herpetolog\-and ecolog)' of our coastal islands from Cape Cod to Cape Fear, and have not now time to rewrite this as I did the original. Publi-Ikill. .\Ius. Comp. ZooL, 143UJ:1-115, Februar\ , 1972 1
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