Anolis delafuentei, also known commonly as the Escambray crested anole and the Guamuhaya anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is endemic to Cuba. www.reptile-database. org.
Etymology The specific name, delafuentei, is in honor of Argentinian herpetological paleontologist Marcelo S. de la Fuente.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Anolis delafuentei, p. 68).
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of A. delafuentei is forest, at an altitude of .
Description A. delafuentei is known only from the holotype, which is a male with a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .
Reproduction A. delafuentei is oviparous.
Taxonomy A. delafuentei is a member of the A. sagrei species group.
References
Further reading Garrido OH (1982). "Nueva especie de Anolis (Lacertilia, Iguanidae) para Cuba". Doñana, Acta Vertebrata 9: 131–137. (Anolis delafuentei, new species). (in Spanish). Nicholson KE (2002). "Phylogenetic analysis and a test of the current infrageneric classification of Norops (beta Anolis)". Herpetological Monographs 16 (1): 93–120. (Norops delafuentei, new combination). Rodríguez Schettino L (editor) (1999). The Iguanid Lizards of Cuba. Gainesville: University Press of Florida (formerly University of Florida Press). 428 pp. . (Anolis delafuentei, p. 368). Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. . (Anolis delafuentei, p. 251).