Anolis pinchoti

Anolis pinchoti
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Dactyloidae
Genus:	Anolis
Species:	A. pinchoti
Binomial name
Anolis pinchoti Cochran, 1931
Synonyms[2]
Norops pinchoti (Cochran, 1931)

Anolis pinchoti, the Crab Cay anole, is a species of lizard belonging to the family Dactyloidae, the anoles. This species is endemic to the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina in the Caribbean Sea, these islands making up the Colombian department of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina.

Anolis pinchoti was first formally described in 1931 by the American herpetologist Doris Mable Cochran with its type locality given as Isla de Providencia. his species is a member of the Anolis auratus species complex^[2] of the anole family, the Dactyloidae.^[3]

Anolis pinchoti has the specific name, pinchoti, is in honor of American forester Gifford Pinchot.^[4]

Anolis pichoti was described from a holotype, a male, which had a snout-vent length of 44 mm (1.7 in). This specimen has drab-coloured sides and backs with reddish brown limbs, head and tail. There are a few ill-defined spots on the sides and some indistinct dark bands on the limbs and tail. There is a sepia blotch across the back of the head and the gular flap was tan coloured. A paratype was also discussed in Cochran's description, this was a female which had a dark stripe along the spine.^[5] The males are apparently slightly larger than the females.^[6]

Anolis pinchoti is endemic to the Colombian Caribbean islands of Crab Cay, Providencia Island, and Santa Catalina Island in the Department of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina.^[1][2]

Anolis pinchoti is found in forest and shrubland, but it has also been found in banana plantations.^[1]

Anolis pinchoti is oviparous.^[2]

• Calderón-Espinosa ML, Barragán Forero A (2011). "Morphological Diversification in Solitary Endemic Anoles: Anolis concolor and Anolis pinchoti from San Andrés and Providence Islands, Colombia". South American Journal of Herpetology 6 (3): 205–210.
• Cochran DM (1931). "A new lizard (Anolis pinchoti) from Old Providence Island". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 21: 354–355. (Anolis pinchoti, new species).
• Nicholson KE (2002). "Phylogenetic analysis and a test of the current infrageneric classification of Norops (beta Anolis)". Herpetological Monographs 16: 93–120. (Norops pinchoti, new combination).
• Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. ISBN 978-0813010496. (Anolis pinchoti, p. 314).
• Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Anolis pinchoti, p. 97).