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Anolis darlingtoni

species of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ5315301 ↗
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Anolis darlingtoni, also known commonly as Darlington's anole and the La Hotte twig anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is endemic to Haiti.

Etymology

The specific name, darlingtoni, is in honor of American entomologist Philip Jackson Darlington Jr.

Geographic range

A. darlingtoni is found in the Massif de la Hotte mountain range, Département du Sud, Haiti.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. darlingtoni is forest, at elevations of 1,360–1,500 m (4,460–4,920 ft).

Reproduction

A. darlingtoni is oviparous.

References

Further reading

Cochran DM (1935). "New reptiles and amphibians collected in Haiti by P.J. Darlington". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 40: 367–375. (Xiphocercus darlingtoni, new species, p.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anolis darlingtoni” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.