Dominican anole
eyed anole
anolis oculatus latin

Within that range, the Dominican Anole has become absent or rare.

The Dominican Anole is estimated to have emerged from this group as a separate species no earlier than 10 million years ago.

The Dominican Anole spends much of the time in trees but mainly hunts on the ground.

The Dominican Anole is locally known as the zandoli, or tree lizard.

Because of its morphological variation, however, confusion remained as to whether the Dominican Anole comprised multiple species or only one.

Long-living and late maturing for anoles, the Dominican Anole can usually breed from around two to three months of age.

It is one of two lizard species endemic to Dominica, the other being the Dominican Anole.

At night, the Dominican Anole climbs to the tips of branches and sleeps clinging to leaves, where heavier nocturnal predators cannot reach them.

Take a Dominican anole from the south (left ), move it to the north, and chances are it will soon turn into a genuine northerner (below ).

The Dominican Anole or Eyed Anole (Anolis oculatus) is a species of anole lizard.

Lazell considered the Dominican Anole "the most bizarre member of the bimaculatus group, and one of the most peculiar members of its huge and diverse genus."

The cause of the Dominican Anole's variability of the Dominican Anole has been the subject of intensive study.

The two endemic lizard species, the Dominican Ground Lizard and the Dominican Anole, are common on the grounds of the Botanical Gardens.

The Dominican Anole is restricted to the island of Dominica, one of the few islands in the Lesser Antilles to have retained its original reptile and amphibian fauna over the last 200 years.

Levels of gene flow are relatively high in Dominican Anole populations over large areas of Dominica, even between different ecotype populations and different members of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages.

The Dominican Anole may eventually face extirpation from most of Dominica, except for perhaps isolated pockets in rain forest at elevations where the Puerto Rican Crested Anole tends to be restricted to open areas.

A. marmoratus terraealtae, found only on the island of Les Saintes located in between Dominica and the main islands of Guadeloupe, may be more closely related to the Dominican Anole than to other A. marmoratus subspecies.

The Dominican Anole is threatened by an invasive competitor, the Puerto Rican Crested Anole, which established itself in Dominica between 1997 and 2002, and has begun to supplant it in the southwestern coastal area surrounding the capital, Roseau.

The Dominican Anole is considered part of the bimaculatus series of Caribbean anoles, which are found on Dominica and islands to its north in the Lesser Antilles, and are more closely related to other Caribbean anoles than to South American anoles.

The Dominican Anole or Eyed Anole (Anolis oculatus) is a species of anole lizard.

The Dominican Anole or Eyed Anole (Anolis oculatus) is a species of anole lizard.

In the 1960s, Skip Lazell, an American herpetologist, made a study of the lizard, the Dominican anole Anolis oculatus, and found it to be strikingly different in appearance in different parts of the island.