Anolis carolinensis or green anole is a tree-dwelling species of anole lizard native to the southeastern United States and introduced to islands in the Pacific and Caribbean. A small to medium-sized lizard, the green anole is a trunk-crown ecomorph and can change its color to several shades from brown to green.
Image: Anole Lizard Hilo Hawaii edit
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Contrasting colors. The prominent white dorsal stripe is characteristic of females.
Anolis carolinensis on Star Jasmine, South Carolina, demonstrating camouflage
Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay. Instead of treating it as a family, some authorities prefer to treat it as a subfamily, Dactyloinae, of the family Iguanidae. In the past they were included in the family Polychrotidae together with Polychrus, but the latter genus is not closely related to the true anoles.
Dactyloidae
Cuba is home to more than 60 anole species (second only to Colombia), most found nowhere else like this West Cuban anole
Like all Lesser Antillean anoles, Leach's anole has a very small range
Puerto Rican bush anole, one of sixteen anole species from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
