Anolis fairchildi

Anolis fairchildi
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Dactyloidae
Genus:	Anolis
Species:	A. fairchildi
Binomial name
Anolis fairchildi Barbour & Shreve, 1935
Synonyms[2][3]
Anolis fairchildi Barbour & Shreve, 1935 Anolis smaragdinus fairchildi — A. Schwartz & Thomas, 1975 Anolis fairchildi — A. Schwartz & Henderson, 1991 Anolis fairchildi — Nicholson et al., 2018

Anolis fairchildi, also known commonly as the Cay Sal anole and Fairchild's anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is native to the Bahamas.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, fairchildi, is in honor of American botanist David Grandison Fairchild.[4]

Geographic range

A. fairchildi is endemic to Cay Sal Bank in the Bahamas.[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. fairchildi is dry shrubland.[1]

Reproduction

A. fairchildi is oviparous.[2]

Taxonomy

A. fairchildi is a member of the A. carolinensis species group.[2]

References

1. Buckner S, Mahler DL, Reynolds RG (2020). "Anolis fairchildi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T74995354A75171586. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/74995354/75171586. Downloaded on 29 March 2021.
2. Species Anolis fairchildi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
3. 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 smaragdinus fairchildi, pp. 104–105).
4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Anolis fairchildi, p. 88).

Further reading

• Barbour T, Shreve B (1935). "Concerning some Bahamian Reptiles, with Notes on the Fauna". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 40: 347–365. (Anolis fairchildi, new species, P. 357).
• Nicholson KE, Crother BI, Guyer C, Savage JM (2018). "Translating a clade based classification into one that is valid under the international code of zoological nomenclature: the case of the lizards of the family Dactyloidae (Order Squamata)". Zootaxa 4461 (4): 573–586. (Anolis fairchildi).
• 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 fairchildi, p. 263).