Anolis christophei, also known commonly as the big-fanned trunk anole and the King Christophe anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is endemic to the island of Hispaniola. www.reptile-database.org.
Etymology The specific name, christophei, refers to the Citadel of King Christophe near Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Anolis Christophei, p. 54).
Geographic range A. christophei is found in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of A. christophei is forest, at altitudes of , but it has also been found in plantations of cacao and coffee.
Description Small for its genus, adults of A. christophei do not exceed in snout-to-vent length (SVL).
Reproduction A. christophei is oviparous.
References
Further reading Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. 714 pp. . (Anolis christophei, p. 236). 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 christophei, p. 73). Williams EE (1960). "Notes on Hispaniolan Herpetology. 1. Anolis christophei, new species, from the Citadel of King Christophe, Haiti". Breviora (117): 1–7.