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REPTILIA: SQUAMATA: SAURIA: IGUANIDAE340.1ANOLIS SERICEUSCatalogueof AmericanAmphibiansand Reptiles.LEE, JULIAN C. 1983. Ano/is sericeus.Anolis sericeusHallowellSilky AnoleAno/is sericeusHallowell, 1856:227. Type-locality, "EI Euceros IeJalapa (=EI Encero de Jalapa, Veracruz), Mexico." Holotype,formerlyin Acad. Natur. Sci. Philadelphia,nowlost(fide Stuart,1955:22).Ano/is sallaei Giinther, 1859:421. Type-locality, "Central Ameri-ca" (given as "Mexico" by Boulenger, 188S:80). Holotype,apparentlya female, British Mus. (Natur. Hist.) 1946.8.5.69,M. Salle, collector (not examined by author). SeeNOMENCLATURALHISTORY.Ano/is longicauda Hallowell, 1860:481. Type-locality, "Nicara-gua." Holotype, Acad. Natur. Sci. Philadelphia7884, collectedby the North Pacific Exploring Expedition (not examinedbyauthor). See NOMENCLATURUALHISTORY.Ano/is ustus Cope, 1864:172. Type-locality, "Belize." Syntypes,British Mus. (Natur. Hist.) 1946.8.5.60-61, males, collectorand date of collectionunknown (not examinedby author).Ano/is he/iactin Cope, 1864:172. Type-locality, "Mexico." Holo-type, Acad. Natur. Sci. Philadelphia 7914, sex, collector, anddate of collectionunknown(Malnate, 1971). Not examinedbyauthor.Ano/is jacobi Bocourt, in Dumeril and Bocourt, 1873:74. Type-locality, "provenant de la Vera Cruz," restrictedby Smith andTaylor (1950:351) to Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico. Holotype,Mus. Hist. Natur. Paris 2406, male,Leprevost,collector(Guibe,1954) (not examinedby author).Ano/is binotatus (not of Peters): Bocourt, in Dumeril and Bocourt,1873:92. See NOMENCLATURALHISTORY.Ano/is pa/pebrosus: Dunn, 1930:18. In error.Ano/is ustus verae-pacis Barbour, 1932:98 (part). SeeNOMENCLATURALHISTORY.Anolis ustus ustus: Barbour, 1932:98. First use of combination.Anolis kidderi Ruthven, 1933:1. Type-locality, "Quinta at Merida,Yucatan" (Mexico). Holotype, Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool.72851, male, collected on July 24, 1932 by E. P. Creaser(examinedby author).Anolis ustus wellbornae Ahl, 1939:246. Type-locality, "EI Salva-dor" (San Salvador, according to Mertens, 1952:44). Holo-type, Zool. Mus. Berlin CI051/35710, male, collectedbyV.Wellborn (not examinedby author).Anolis sericeus sericeus:Stuart, 1955:25. First use of trinomial.Anolis sericeus wellbornae: Stuart, 1955:26. New combination.Anolis sallaei wellbornae: Smith and Kerster, 1955:201. Newcombination.Anolis sallaei sallaei: Alvarez del Toro and Smith, 1956:8. Firstuse of trinomial.Anolis sallaei wellbournei: McCoy andVan Horn, 1962:182. Lap-sus.Anolis sericeus ustus: Duellman, 1965:596. New combination.Anolis sallaei ustus:SmithandTaylor, 1966:13. New combination.Anolis sallaei sericeus: Alvarez del Toro, 1973:166. New combi-'nation.• CONTENT. No subspeciesare currently recognized(Lee, 1980).• DEFINITION. A small, attenuateanole,near the minimumsizefor the genus.Males and femalesfrom the Pacific slopeof Chiapasand Guatemala average 45.4 and 41.0 mm snout-vent length,respectively(Fitch, 1976:5). The magnitudeof sexual size dimor-phism varies geographically(Lee, 1980:314). The dorsalscalesaresmalland heavilykeeled,with six to eightmiddorsalrowssomewhatenlarged.The ventrals are keeled and larger than the dorsals.Thedorsumis predominantlyunicolor gray to bronzewith a silky sheen,and with indistinct dark reticulationsand spots, especiallyon thelegs. The venter is uniform pale yellow to white. Females exhibitpattern polymorphismin which some individualshave a light ver-tebral stripe. Males have a yellow-orangeto reddishdewlapwith ablue or purple central spot; in females the dewlap is rudimentaryand bearsonly a trace of color.• DESCRIPTIONS.In addition to the original descriptionsof A.sericeus and its synonyms, brief descriptionsare given by Fitch(1973, 1975), Fitch and Henderson (1973), and Henderson andFitch (1975).• ILLUSTRATIONS.Black and white photographsof A. sericeusare in Alvarez del Toro (1960; as A. sallaei), and in Fitch (1973).Line drawings of scutellationappear in Bocourt, in Dumeril andBocourt(1873; as A. jacobi, A. sallaei, and A. he/iactin), Giinther(1885-1902; as A. salaei and A. ustus),and Lee (1980).• DISTRIBUTION.Anolis sericeus occupieslow and intermediateelevationsfrom Tamaulipas, Mexico, to Nicaragua on the Atlanticversant,and from the Isthmus of Tehuantepecsouth to Costa Ricaon the Pacific versant. The northernmost locality is 13 km SEPadilla, Tamaulipas, Mexico (24°01'N, 98°41'W; Martin, 1958).The southernmoststation is Boca de Barranca, Puntarenas Prov-ince, CostaRica (09"58'N, 85°16'W; Fitch, 1973). Mertens (1952)publisheda photographof the habitatof A. sericeusin EI Salvador.• FOSSILRECORD. None.• PERTINENTLITERATURE. The most recent and comprehensivesystematictreatmentis that of Lee (1980). Stuart (1955) studiedmorphologicalvariation in populationsfrom throughout the rangeof the species,exclusiveof the Yucatan Peninsula. Ecological stud-ies include thoseof Hendersonand Fitch (1975) and Fitch (1973,1975). The latter studiesalso presentdata on thermal biology andreproduction.Distributionalreviewsare availablefor various coun-tries and geographicareas, as follows: Mexico (Smith and Taylor,1966), Central America (Peters and Donoso-Barros, 1970), Belize(Hendersonand Hoevers, 1975), Guatemala(Stuart, 1963), Hon-duras(Meyer and Wilson, 1973), and EI Salvador(Mertens, 1952).• NOMENCLATURALHISTORY. Giinther did not designatea holo-type for Anolis sallaei. Stuart (1955:25), basing his remarks oncorrespondencewith H. W. Parker of the British Museum (NaturalHistory), concludedthat the specimenupon which Giinther basedhis descriptionis a female, which " ... almost certainly originatedfrom Veracruz, probably the Jalapa region." According to Parker,100 200 300 400, , I I260 400 6bo 800 KM.MAP. Solid circle marks type-IDcality,open circles indicateotherlocalities.Uncertain range limits are indicatedby questionmarks.thisis thespecimenfiguredby Giinther(1885-1902:P!.27, Fig.B), andrecognizedby Boulenger(1885:80)as theholotype.Bar·bour(1934:150)placedAnolis longicaudusHallowellas a syn·onymof A. sericeus,althoughhe admittedthatthe holotypeisdriedandunrecognizable.Otherauthors(PetersandDonoso-Barros,1970,for example)havenot followedthisallocation.Bocourt(inDumerilandBocourt,1873)incorrectlyappliedthenameAnolisbinotatusto specimensof A. sericeusfromLa Union,El Salvador(Mertens,1952:43).Schmidt(1941:493)pointedoutthattheho-lotypeof Anolis ustusverae-pacisBarbouris referableto AnolisbourgeaeiBocourt,andStuart(1948:51)notedthattheparatypesareAnolis sericeus.• ETYMOLOGY.AlthoughnotgivenbyHallowell,theLatinwordsericeusmeans"pertainingto silk," perhapsin referenceto thesilkyappearanceof thedorsumof thisspecies.COMMENTStuart(1955:29)arguedthatA. ustusandA. kidderiaredistantlyrelatedto A. sericeus,andthat theirsimilaritiesto A.sericeusaretheresultof convergence.Duellman(1965:596)com-paredspecimensfromthe YucatanPeninsulawithsamplesfromVeracruz,MexicoandEI Peten,Guatemala,andassignedA. ustustosubspecificstatuswithinA. sericeus.Lee(1980)showedthatthesupposedlydiagnosticharactersof A. kidderiare insufficienttodistinguishit fromA. sericeusfromthroughouttheYucatanPen-insula,and thatthe latterare not distinctfromextra-peninsularpopulations.Lee (1980)concludedthatA. kidderiandA. ustusare synonymsof A. sericeus,and thatrecognitionof subspecieswithinA. sericeusis unjustified.LITERATURECITEDAhl,E. 1939. UbereinesammlungvonreptilienausEl Salvador.Sitzungsber.Ges.Naturforsch.Freunde(Berlin)1939(2):245-249.AlvarezdelToro,M. 1960. LosreptilesdeChiapas.FirstEdition.Ins!. Zoo!.del Estado,Tuxtla Gutierrez,Chiapas,Mexico.204 p.1973. LosreptilesdeChiapas.SecondEdition.GobiernodelEstado,TuxtlaGutierrez,Chiapas,Mexico.v +178p.-, andH. M. Smith. 1956. NotulaeherpetologicaeChiapasiaeI. Herpetologica12(1):3-17.Barbour,Thomas.. 1932. Newanoles.Proc.NewEnglandZoo!.Club12:97-102.1934. The anoles.II. The mainlandspeciesfrom Mexicosouthward.Bull.Mus.CompoZoo!.77(4):121-155.Boulenger,GeorgeAlbert. 1885. Catalogueof thelizardsin theBritishMuseum(NaturalHistory).Secondedition.TaylorandFrancis,London,vo!.2. xiii +497 p.Cope,EdwardDrinker. 1864. Contributionsto theherpetologyof tropicalAmerica.Proc. Acad.Natur.Sci. Philadelphia16:166-181.Duellman,WilliamE. 1965. AmphibiansandreptilesfromtheYucatanPeninsula,Mexico.Univ. KansasPub!.Mus.Natur.Hist. 15(12):577-614.Dumeril,AugusteHenriAndre,andM.-F. 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