Critically Endangered
Mangrove Anole
Anolis utilensis
Mangrove Anole is an anole in the family Dactyloidae — Anolis utilensis, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Honduras.
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
It is endemic to Útila, in the Bay Islands (Honduras).
GBIF currently lists 12 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
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
It is threatened by the loss of its natural habitat.
Mangrove Anole 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 Mangrove Anole — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2852213 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.
