Deiroptyx chlorocyana (C. Dumeril and Bibron, 1837)

Nicholson, Kirsten E., Crother, Brian I., Guyer, Craig & Savage, Jay M., 2012, 3477, Zootaxa 3477, pp. 1-108 : 26-27

Deiroptyx chlorocyana Species Group

Diagnosis. — Support for this group is provided by 81 apomorphies including twelve morphological and 69 molecular ones. Two morphological apomorphies are unequivocal: length of thigh increased (1: 0 to n) and supratemporal processes leave supraocciptal exposed above (61: z to a). There are 26 unequivocal molecular apomorphies (see Appendix II).

Definition. — These are small to moderate-sized anoles (adult males 45 to 84 mm in snout-to-vent length and adult females 45 to 60 mm) that share the following combination of features: 1) no rugose cephalic casque; 2) male and most female dewlaps large, base extending beyond axilla onto venter (dewlap in female D. alinger extending only to level of axilla); 3) no splenial; 5) dorsal scales, small, granular, and smooth; 6) ventral scales smooth, slightly imbricate, and larger than dorsals; 7) Type I karyotype: 2N = 36 (24M, 24m), N.F. = 48; no sexual heteromorphism.

Content. — This species group is comprised of five species, four extant and one fossil, and a total of eight species and subspecies (see Appendix III).

Distribution. — Hispaniola and its satellite islands ( Fig. 14).