Anolis townsendi

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Anolis townsendi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Dactyloidae
Genus: Anolis
Species:
A. townsendi
Binomial name
Anolis townsendi
Stejneger, 1900
Synonyms

Norops townsendi(Stejneger, 1900)

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]

Ecology

A. townsendi is sometimes predated on by the Cocos cuckoo (Coccyzus ferrugineus), a bird and another endemic species of the island. [3]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "Anolis townsendi". The Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Anolis&species=townsendi
  3. ↑ 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.
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