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Originally Posted by RecycledAgain
Interesting, So let me get this strait (sic). the Bahamians mate with the female browns, this union toss off variants? Some that look like the Brown anole but stockier, and some that carry more of the Bahamian traits. I use this example loosely, The Bahamians are polluting the gene pool ?
I placed a US quarter in the picture with the presumed brown anoles, by my estimation we are pushing 7 inch including the tail. When captured there was a definite nucal crest as well.
From your post I assume you think they are mongrels?
Dan
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No. The "Brown Anole" is a common name for
Anolis sagrei. It is not a name for females; it applies to both sexes of the species
Anolis sagrei. There are various races or forms of
A. sagrei which originated in various places where they developed over time into somewhat distinct forms of the species. Hence I speak of the "true Cuban form" or the Bahamanian form, etc.
When the "Brown Anole" (
A. sagrei) first arrived on our blessed shores in south Florida (some 50-60 years ago?), apparently the race that arrived then was the Cuban form. It was, as I have said, a larger, stockier animal and the males had the nuchal crest, etc. It also had the markings I illustrated in the Conant field guide drawing (q.v.).
Then, later, again apparently, other races of
A. sagrei managed to "invade" south Florida, such as what I take to be the different Bahama form. When this Bahamanian race arrived it mated with the already present Cuban form, "polluting" the gene pool so that south Florida no longer had just one race of
A. sagrei but rather a hodge-podge of races, forms, whatever. That is why I used the term "mongrel", in the sense used for dogs.
What I am still wondering is, if there are still any of the original race in south Florida which looks like the Cuban form in my illustration?
BB
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