Anolis allisoni

Anolis allisoni, called Allison's anole or the Cuban blue anole, is a lizard of the family Dactyloidae. It is native to most of Cuba, to the Bay Islands and Cayos Cochinos off Honduras, and to Half Moon Caye off Belize, and it has recently been recorded in southern Florida, where it is thought to have arrived as eggs carried in with plants. Males are bright blue on the head, forelegs and front half of the body, with a reddish-pink dewlap, while females are mostly green with paler underparts; both sexes can rapidly turn brown. Females reach about 7.5 centimetres in snout-vent length and males about 10, which makes it one of the larger anoles of the carolinensis group. It is a diurnal trunk-crown anole, usually seen on palm trunks and up to about 1.5 metres from the ground, and it feeds on invertebrates. Females may lay eggs together in a communal nest. The specific name honours the American philanthropist Allison Vincent Armour.