Critically Endangered
Anolis monteverde
Anolis monteverde
Anolis monteverde is an anole in the family Dactyloidae, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Costa Rica.
The anole
Anoles are small New World lizards. Most species hold a coloured throat fan, and they split the forest into perches: trunk, twig, grass, or crown.
Anoles (Dactyloidae) are diurnal lizards of the Americas and the Caribbean. Many are arboreal; a dewlap is the usual field mark of a displaying male.
Range and habitat
The species is endemic to Costa Rica and only known from the Tilarán Mountains, Puntarenas Province, at elevations of 1,545–1,650 m (5,069–5,413 ft) above sea level.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Anoles hunt insects by sight. Males display the dewlap; many species are tightly tied to a perch type in a single range of hills or an island.
In crisis
Anolis monteverde is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Anolis monteverde — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3343974. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
