Spotting

Sorry Yaniv, have only just see your post. Added it to the mission !

thanks AshleyT for your comments and help...

yes, interesting, Nacho...

Amazing photos! Please consider adding your spotting to the "Reptiles of Costa Rica" mission:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1589...

Yes the amount of species there is overwhelming! It is certainly one of the prettiest ones I have ever seen :) I'm sure there are people out there that can ID them, but I don't know anyone haha

oh yes, very hard to find! but enlightening and interesting.

Hahaha, well Ashley, I guess that's that ! Haven't got a dewlap !! And I was also put off by the many species in CR. May be lucky to find someone who knows CR lizards sometime, otherwise it's just a cute anole !

thanks Nacho, seems it's not easy to ID...

I thought it was a pretty unique pattern too, until I Googled "anoles in Costa Rica" haha. I have a field guide to reptiles and amphibians of Costa Rica and it's 300 something pages long... I'm certainly not familiar enough with Central and South American lizards to sit down and try to ID them, makes my head hurt a lot. Honestly, I wouldn't feel comfortable IDing any anole in this area to species without seeing the dewlap.

observing various specimens , loin lines resemble the anole . but it is only a similarity , there must be variations between adults and juveniles.

http://www.saumfinger.de/anolis_compress...

thanks Ashley. Yes I guessed it was an anole, but I didn't realize it was so difficult ID-ing them. I thought this was a pretty unique pattern along its back and could be ID-ed through that. Shall I just leave it "Unknown spotting" then ?

It's an anole, I assume you already know that? Getting an anole down to species level in Central America is extremely hard and without seeing the dewlap of a male I don't bother trying. They are all extremely variable and there are so many species.

has anyone got an ID for this cute little lizard ?

haha shekainah, yes, very cute... and checking me out, also.

thank you Mark, that's a nice compliment... It was a bit tricky, and I ended up in quite an odd position to be able to shoot through the undergrowth. Luckily it froze when it saw me looking at it. Gave me a bit more time to wangle myself into a position !

Woooowh!!! a very cute birthday present Pam.

thank you Neil... and thanks also for the birthday greetings. I am in a beautiful place in Costa Rica !

thanks kfox...

He's fantastic Pam. Well done to shoot past those shrubs through the gap.

Beautiful. Great spotting, Pam. Happy Birthday too :-)

Gorgeous pic!