Anolis sagrei sagrei (displaying)🦎

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SpeciesDactyloidae
Reptiles

🦎Brown anole

Anolis sagrei Duméril & Bibron, 1837

The brown anole, also known commonly as the Cuban brown anole, Bahaman anole, or De la Sagra's anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is native to Cuba, the Bahamas, Little Cayman, Cayman Brac, Jamaica, the Swan Islands, the Yucatán Peninsula, Belize and the Caribbean coast of Guatemala and Honduras. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, via the importation and exportation of plants where the anole would lay eggs in the soil of the pots, and is now found in Florida and other regions of the United States including southern Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Hawaii, North Carolina, and Southern California. It has also been introduced to other Caribbean islands, Mexico, Singapore, and Taiwan.

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≈ 1/7,130th of your weight
Also called
Anolis sagrei, Cuban brown anole
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.01 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
8 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Brown anole

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.01 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
8 yearsmaximum recorded
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Diet
Carnivorous
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Foraging mode
AMB
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Venomous
No
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Snout–vent length
0.07 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.05 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Brown anole yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyDactyloidae
  5. ›genusAnolis
  6. ›speciesAnolis sagrei
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. suborderIguania
  4. familyDactyloidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. suborderIguania
  12. familyDactyloidae
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沙氏變色蜥 (zh), Norops sagrei (fr), Sagra's anolis (nl), Anolis sagrei (pt), Anolis sagrei (uk), Bahamaanolis (de) … and 14 more languages
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