Description: It has 3-4 rows of loreals; scales between supraorbitals 1; 1-2 scales between interparietal and supraorbital semicircles; 5 postrostrals; 4 postmentals; suboculars in contact with supralabials; scales behind interparietal grade gradually into dorsals; auricular opening circular, not lying in a longitudinally elongate depression (pinar del Rio lizards may have V-shaped posterior margin to auricular opening); dorsals slightly keeled, slightly imbricate; ventrals faintly keeled, slightly imbricate, in transverse and diagonal rows; tail long, round, slightly depressed at base, weakly verticillate with 4 scales/verticil; supradigital scales multicarinate. Dorsum bright green to dark brown in metachrosis, sexually dichromatic in pattern; males green, brown, gray, light green, yellow-green, often with dark variegations on body and with scattered white scales on neck or entire body; a dark shoulder patch present or absent; with or without a light vertebral stripe, bordered by brown stripe on each side; females with more or less same ground colors as males, at times with white scales on sides, or with a light, middorsal stripe bordered by darker pigment; dewlap reddish to mauve. From The Reptile Database
Habitat: Perches on fences, tree limbs, shrubs, buildings, lumber piles; may occupy orchid houses in Hawaii. Commonly in yards and gardens in Hawaii. Eggs are laid in loose soil in a protected site.
Range: The Cuban green anole, is a species of anole lizard that is native to Cuba, but has been introduced to Florida, the Dominican Republic, São Paulo, and Tenerife.
Reproduction: The Cuban Green Anole is oviparous. Hybridization: Anolis porcatus appears to hybridize with Green Anole A. carolinensis in Florida
Status: Listed as Least Concern because of its large extent of occurrence and the threats do not affect it fast enough to qualify for a more threatened category.
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