jansonjones

Thanks, Aaron. I missed your comment! This really was a fantastic beetle. I've never seen anything like it!

Definitely A. sagrei! RAH!

NJB: Very cool, dude. I still can't quite make it out with certainty, but that does indeed look quite a bit like a Cuban brown anole (Anolis sagrei). Hopefully we can get some other people to pipe with their opinions? I don't know Texas lizards very well, so it could always be some fence lizard or something like that. Any chance you can update your post and write in some detailed descriptions? Stuff like where you were when you saw it, how it moved, what it did. Stuff like that. Written descriptions really do help people figure out what's going on -- especially when you've got a cool spotting like this one!

So far we have two votes for A. terrestris and no votes for A. quercicus (via myself and the Facebook universe).

Hey, that sort of looks like Anolis sagrei, the Cuban brown anole. They're well established in the southeast, but I didn't know they'd reached out to Texas! Any chance you can crop and post a closer view of the lizard? It could be another species. I'm not sure. But I'd sure love to get a closer look. If that is a Cuban brown anole, that's a *really* cool find!!!

Nerodia rhombifer, man. This is classic. Just classic.

That's a seriously cool looking knight anole!

Agreed. If this is Virginia and wild, it's definitely N. sipedon. It's *definitely* not N. taxispilota or N. erythrogaster. What caught me off guard is how similar the black/red looks like N. fasciata, but I'm pretty sure Virginia is out of N. fasciata's range. Quite lovely!

I just saw one of these today. Made me *so* happy! I adore this species!

Lovely composition with this one! I do love a lovely photograph of a lovely Carolina green anole!