Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Dactyloidae > Anolis > Anolis carolinensisAnolis carolinensis (Green anole)Synonyms: Ameiua bullaris; Anolis baccatus; Anolis carolinensis seminolus; Anolis podargicus; Anolius carolinensis; Norops baccatus The Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis) is an arboreal lizard found primarily in the southeastern United States and some Caribbean islands. Other common names include the green anole, American anole and red-throated anole. It is also sometimes referred to as the American chameleon due to its ability to change color from several brown hues to bright green and its somewhat similar appearance (though it is not a true chameleon). |
| Adult Weight [1] | 2.3 grams | | Female Weight [2] | 2 grams |  | | Female Maturity [2] | 8 months 19 days | | Male Maturity [2] | 8 months 19 days | | | Gestation [2] | 45 days | | Litter Size [2] | 1 | | Litters / Year [4] | 4 | | Maximum Longevity [5] | 7 years | | Reproductive Mode [3] | Oviparous | | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 1.968 inches (5 cm) | | | Habitat Substrate [3] | Arboreal |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
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American Memorial Park |
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Saipan, Northern Mariana Island |
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Big Cypress National Preserve |
V |
732120 |
Florida, United States |
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Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
616880 |
Texas, United States |
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Canaveral National Seashore |
II |
9090 |
Florida, United States |
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Cape Lookout National Seashore |
II |
18379 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
8964 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area |
V |
7622 |
Georgia, United States |
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Congaree Swamp National Park |
II |
6095 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Cumberland Island National Seashore |
II |
20629 |
Georgia, United States |
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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary |
IV |
2387149 |
Florida, United States |
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Fort Caroline National Memorial |
III |
137 |
Florida, United States |
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Fort Matanzas National Monument |
III |
269 |
Florida, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Gulf Island National Seashore |
II |
67487 |
Florida, Mississippi, United States |
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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park |
V |
1926 |
Alabama, United States |
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Jean Lafitte National Hist. Park & Preserve National Historical Park |
II |
17686 |
Louisiana, United States |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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Little St. Simons Island |
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Georgia, United States |
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Moores Creek National Battlefield |
III |
100 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Ocmulgee National Monument |
V |
693 |
Georgia, United States |
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
38256 |
Florida, United States |
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Padre Island National Seashore |
II |
42068 |
Texas, United States |
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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park |
VI |
854 |
Texas, United States |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
26618 |
Alabama, United States |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
Yes |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226 ♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj ♦ 4Clutch Size and Reproductive Effort in the Lizard Lacerta vivipara Jacquin, R. A. Avery, Oecologia (Berl.) 19, 165-170 (1975) ♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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