page_title: Anolis podocarpus
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Anolis podocarpus / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Anolis podocarpus, male holotype. Polski: Holotypowy samiec Anolis podocarpus.
context_page_description: Anolis podocarpus is a species of anole lizard in the family Dactyloidae. It was first described by Fernando P. Ayala-Varela and Omar Torres-Carvajal in 2010, the type locality being the Podocarpus National Park at Romerillos Alto in Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Ecuador on the southeastern slopes of the Andes. The specific name refers to the Podocarpus trees which are found in the Park.
context_section_description: Anolis podocarpus is a medium-sized lizard with a snout-to-vent length of up to 96 mm (3.8 in) and a slender tail more than twice as long. Females are usually slightly smaller than males. The forelimbs are short and the hind limbs about twice as long. There are five digits on the forefeet and four long digits on the hind feet. The digits have toepads which overlap the first phalange. Both sexes have a large dewlap which extends to behind the forelimbs. The dewlap has two to five (usually three or four) longitudinal rows of minute granular scales separated by bare skin. The colouring of this lizard is variable. The males are mainly yellowish-green or green with seven brown bands on the dorsal surface, a large dark spot on the shoulder and the limbs and tail banded transversely in dark brown. The ventral surface is yellowish-green or yellow, the dewlap reddish brown and the ventral side of the hind limbs cream with reddish-brown reticulations. The females are somewhat similar but have a greenish head with a blue tongue, and the basal colour of the body is blackish-brown. There is a cream vertebral stripe, the dewlap is purplish-brown and the ventral surface is darker than in males. This species closely resembles Anolis fitchi but differs from it mainly in the arrangement of scales on the dewlap and the size of the dewlap, that of A. podocarpus being smaller.
caption: Male, the holotype
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