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	Bark | Bush | Bush Giant | Cliff | Crown Giant | Fern | Grass | Grass-bush | Green twig Ground-bush | Ground hopper | Montane Generalist | Rock | Stream | Trunk | Trunk-bush Trunk-crown | Trunk-ground | Trunk-ground (generalist) | Twig Dwarf | Twig Giant | Twig Supergiant Sources and References

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Ecomorphs of Greater Antillean Anolis

BARK
loysianus
 
BUSH
argillaceus
bahorucoensis
centralis
dolichocephalus
etheridgei
hendersoni
koopmani
krugi
monticola
poncensis
pulchellus
pumilus
rimarum
rupinae
 
BUSH GIANT
fowleri
 
CLIFF
bartschi
lucius
 
CROWN GIANT
baleatus
baracoae
barahonae
cuvieri
equestris
garmani
luteogularis
noblei
pigmaequestris
ricordi
roosevelti
smallwoodi
 
FERN
clivicola
cyanopleurus
 
GRASS
alumina
olssoni
ophiolepis
semilineatus
 
GRASS-BUSH
alfaroi
alutaceus
anfiloquioi
cupeyalensis
fugitivus
inexpectatus
juangundlachi
macilentis
spectrum
vanidicus
vescus
 
GREEN TWIG
aliniger
altitudinalis
isolepis
singularis
 
GROUND-BUSH
armouri
cybotes
haetianus
longitibialis
marcanoi
shrevei
strahmi
whitemani
 
GROUND HOPPER
barbouri
 
MONTANE GENERALIST
reconditus
 
ROCK
guafe
imias
mestrei
 
STREAM
eugenegrahami
vermiculatus
 
TRUNK
argenteolus
christophei
 
TRUNK-BUSH
altavelensis
brevirostris
caudalis
distichus
marron
websteri
 
TRUNK-CROWN
allisoni
chlorocyanus
coelestinus
evermanni
grahami
incredulus

maynardi
opalinus
porcatus
stratulus
 
TRUNK-GROUND
ahli
allogus
birama
bremeri
confusus
cooki
cristatellus
delafuentei
desechensis
gundlachi
homolechis
jubar
lineatopus
quadriocellifer
rubribarbus
 
TRUNK-GROUND (generalist)
monensis
sagrei
 
TWIG DWARF
alayoni
angusticeps
guazuma
insolitus
occultus
paternus
placidus
sheplani
 
TWIG GIANT
darlingtoni
valencienni
 
TWIG SUPERGIANT
agueroi
barbatus
chamaeleonides
guamuhaya
porcus
 
 
 
SOURCES AND REFERENCES

The ecomorph designations above are based on the Williams (1983) and field observations (Hedges). Note: most Cuban species had not previously been assigned to ecomorphs. Much more ecological and behavioral study (esp. Cuban and Hispaniolan species) is necessary before an accurate classification of anole ecomorphs can be established. Such work is being undertaken by Jonathan Losos and colleagues.  
 
Selected references:

Losos, J. B., T. R. Jackman, A. Larson, K. de Queiroz, and L. Rodriguez-Schettino. 1998. Contingency and determinism in replicated adaptive radiations of island lizards. Science 279:2115-2118.

Williams, E. E. 1972. The origin of faunas. Evolution of lizard congeners in a complex island fauna: a trial analysis. Evol. Biol. 6:47-89.

Williams, E. E. 1983. Ecomorphs, faunas, island size, and diverse end points in island radiations of Anolis. Pp. 326-370. In R. B. Huey, E. R. Pianca, and T. W. Schoener (Eds.), Lizard Ecology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.