Anolis bartschi, also known commonly as the Pinar Del Rio cliff anole, the western cliff anole, and the west Cuban anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is endemic to Cuba.
Description Anolis bartschi is a medium-sized anole. Adult males have a typical snout-to-vent length of and females . It is one of only two anoles that completely lack a dewlap (both sexes), the other being the Cuban stream anole (A. vermiculatus).Losos J (2 April 2013). Anole Beach Party In Venezuela. Anole Annals. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
Geographic range A. bartschi is native to western Cuba (Pinar del Río Province). www.reptile-database.org.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of A. bartschi is forest in limestone karst areas.
Reproduction A. bartschi is oviparous. It is among the relatively few anole species in which females may lay their eggs together, forming a communal nest in cavities in a steep cliff.
Etymology The specific name, bartschi, is in honor of zoologist Paul Bartsch, who collected the holotype.Cochran 1928.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Anolis bartschi, p. 18).
See also List of Anolis lizards
References
Further reading
Cochran DM (1928). "A Second Species of Deiroptyx from Cuba". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 41: 169–170. (Deiroptyx bartschi, new species). Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Anolis bartschi, p. 70).