Abstract
We report on new localities for Anolis gruuo Köhler, Ponce, Sunyer and Batista, 2007 along the Serranía de Tabasará in the Comarca Ngöbe-Buglé and Veraguas province of western Panama. These records extend the known geographic distribution of this lizard about 80 km eastward, and the known vertical distribution approximately 40 m lower and 630 m higher. We provide photos of specimens from different localities and comment on their morphology. Only the easternmost populations of this Panamanian endemic live inside a protected area.
Highlights
All specimens were encountered during opportunistic searches performed primarily at night, captured by hand, and preserved the day after capture
During recent field work in the highlands of western Panama, we collected 23 additional specimens of A. gruuo from several localities east of the type locality that considerably improve our knowledge of the distribution and morphological variation of this little-known species
Our specimens have been deposited in the collection of the Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut Frankfurt (SMF) and in the Museo Herpetológico de Chiriquí (MHCH) of the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, Davíd, Chiriquí, Panama
Summary
All specimens were encountered during opportunistic searches performed primarily at night, captured by hand, and preserved the day after capture.
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