Brown Anole

Description:

The body of Anolis sagrei is slightly stockier than in the Green Anole but still overall slim. The snout is blunt. The powerful limbs and the adhesive disks on the toes distinguish these animals as good climbers that even can walk along on glass without any problems. The basic color of these lizards ranges from dark brown over yellowish-brown to gray. The Brown Anole, however, has the abiliy to change ist colors to a small extent. Both sexes have a bright diamond pattern on their back that is more pronounced in the females and young animals. Males have dark triangular spots sideways of this diamond pattern but they can also have yellow dots. The females own an additional white vertebral stripe. Males are about 180 mm long with a snout-vent length of 65-70 mm, females are only about 130-140 mm in size with a SVL of 43 mm. The tail can be dropped at risk and will grow again after (though not as nice as the original). Upon excitement, both sexes are able to set up a skin fold on the neck which is more pronounced in males.

Habitat:

Native to Cuba and the Bahamas. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, and is now found in Florida and as far north as southern Georgia, Texas, Taiwan, Hawaii, Southern California, and other Caribbean islands.

Notes:

I spotted this brown anole on a petrified conch shell near our condo.