Anolis higuey
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
Anolis higuey, the Cordillera Oriental stout anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. Males grow to 69 mm (2.7 in) and females to 51 mm (2.0 in) in snout–vent length. Males have dirty-white dewlaps with a yellow, green, or orange hue and regularly-arranged gorgetals, smaller in size towards the center of the dewlap. It is endemic to the eastern Dominican Republic, where it lives in a variety of habitats at elevations of up to 290 m (950 ft).
Anolis higuey was formally described in 2019 as Audantia higuey based on a specimen from Manatí Park Bávaro in the La Altagracia Province of the Dominican Republic. The species is named after Higüey, a pre-Columbian Taíno chiefdom that was located in the anole's range. It has the common name Cordillera Oriental stout anole.
Specimens of Anolis higuey were historically considered to represent Anolis cybotes, but A. higuey is in actuality most closely related to a clade formed by A. doris, armouri, shrevei, ravifaux, and hispaniolae. The extremely large genus Anolis is sometimes split into several smaller genera; under this arrangement, Anolis higuey is placed in the genus Audantia, a group of more than a dozen species... Wikipedia →
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Santo Domingo | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Cordillera Oriental Stout Anole sighting in Santo Domingo on a given day, based on 39 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 5th most-seen of the 22 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and December–March
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Cordillera Oriental Stout Anole in Santo Domingo on a given day, against about 30% in May, September and November, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cordillera Oriental Stout Anole sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Santo Domingo, in our data
Santo Domingo is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Cordillera Oriental Stout Anole sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Anolis
The closest relatives of the Cordillera Oriental Stout Anole that you can see in Santo Domingo (genus Anolis, Anoles) are Bark Anole (about 80%), Common Stout Anole (about 70%) and Cuban Green Anole (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cordillera Oriental Stout Anole is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Santo Domingo (39 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
