page_title: List of Anolis lizards
section_title: P
hierarchical_section_title: List of Anolis lizards / P
caption_attribution_description: English: Many-scaled anole (Anolis polylepis, also called Norops polylepis) bobbing its head and displaying its large yellow dewlap, in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.
context_page_description: The large lizard genus Anolis contains around 436 accepted anole species, which have been considered in a number of subgroups, or clades such as carolinensis and isolepis.
  Nota bene: In the following list, a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Anolis.
context_section_description: Anolis pachypus (Cope, 1876)
  Anolis palmeri Boulenger, 1908 – Palmer's anole
  Anolis paravertebralis (Bernal-Carlo and Roze, 2005)
  Anolis parilis (Williams, 1975) – Ecuador anole
  Anolis parvauritus (Williams, 1966)
  Anolis parvicirculatus (Álvarez del Toro & H.M. Smith, 1956)
  Anolis paternus Hardy, 1967 – Nueva Gerona anole
  Anolis paternus paternus Hardy, 1967
  Anolis paternus pinarensis Garrido, 1975
  Anolis pecuarius  Schwartz, 1969 – Île-à-Vache green anole
  Anolis pentaprion (Cope, 1863)
  Anolis peraccae (Boulenger, 1898)
  Anolis peruensis Poe, Latella, Ayala-Varela, Yañez-Miranda, & Torres-Carvajal, 2015
  Anolis petersii (Bocourt, 1873)
  Anolis peynadoi Mertens, 1939
  Anolis philopunctatus (Rodrigues, 1988)
  Anolis phyllorhinus (Myers & Carvalho, 1945) – bat anole
  Anolis pigmaequestris (Garrido, 1975) – Cayo Francés anole
  Anolis pijolensis (McCranie, Wilson, & Williams, 1993)
  Anolis pinchoti Cochran, 1931
  Anolis placidus Hedges and Thomas, 1989 – placid anole
  Anolis podocarpus (Ayala-Varela & Torres-Carvajal, 2010)
  Anolis poecilopus (Cope, 1862)
  Anolis pogus (Lazell, 1972) – Anguilla Bank bush anole or Watts' anole
  Anolis polylepis (Peters, 1874) – many-scaled anole or Golfo-Dulce anole
  Anolis polyrhachis (H.M. Smith, 1968)
  Anolis poncensis (Stejneger, 1904) – Ponce anole
  Anolis porcatus |Gray, 1840 – Cuban green anole
  Anolis porcatus aracelyae Perez-Beato, 1996
  Anolis porcatus porcatus Gray, 1840
  Anolis porcus (Cope, 1864) – Oriente bearded anole
  Anolis prasinorius Kohler & Hedges, 2016
  Anolis princeps (Boulenger, 1902) – first anole
  Anolis proboscis (Peters and Orces, 1956) – horned anole
  Anolis properus Schwartz, 1968
  Anolis propinquus (Williams, 1984)
  Anolis pseudokemptoni (Köhler, Ponce, Sunyer, & Batista, 2007) – false Kempton's anole
  Anolis pseudopachypus (Köhler, Ponce, Sunyer, & Batista, 2007)
  Anolis pseudotigrinus (Amaral, 1933) – false tiger anole
  Anolis pulchellus Duméril & Bibron, 1837 – sharp-mouthed anole, Puerto Rican anole, or snake anole
  Anolis pumilus Garrido, 1988
  Anolis punctatus (Daudin, 1802) – spotted anole or Amazon green anole
  Anolis punctatus boulengeri O'Shaughnessy, 1881
  Anolis punctatus punctatus Daudin, 1802
  Anolis purpurescens (Cope, 1899) – purple anole
  Anolis purpurgularis (McCranie, Cruz, & Holm, 1993)
  Anolis purpuronectes Gray, Meza-Lazaro, Poe, & Nieto-Montes De Oca, 2016
  Anolis pygmaeus (Álvarez del Toro & H.M Smith, 1956) – Chiapis pygmy anole
caption: A. polylepis in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, bobbing its head and extending a large yellow dewlap
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