. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Anolis distichus ' Schwartz 305 biminien sis distichoides dapsllis florid anus ocior. dominicensis 1 supper favillarum I ravitergum ignigularis ^ \ I ^ ^ vinosus aurifer ' tostus properus juliae patruelis , sejunctus Figure 4. Dendrogram of the relationships between the subspecies of Ano//s distichus. Bohaman subspecies above solid horizontal line, Hispaniolan subspecies below solid horizontal line; subspecies on the south island of Hispaniola and its satellite islands enclosed within dashed line in lower left of diag
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Anolis distichus ' Schwartz 305 biminien sis distichoides dapsllis florid anus ocior. dominicensis 1 supper favillarum I ravitergum ignigularis ^ \ I ^ ^ vinosus aurifer ' tostus properus juliae patruelis , sejunctus Figure 4. Dendrogram of the relationships between the subspecies of Ano//s distichus. Bohaman subspecies above solid horizontal line, Hispaniolan subspecies below solid horizontal line; subspecies on the south island of Hispaniola and its satellite islands enclosed within dashed line in lower left of diagram. cut off from the Great Bank, but in contrast to Rum and San Salvador, Cat is not far removed from the Great Bank and is still connected to Eleuthera by a narrow sub- marine strip (Clench, 1938:536). Its his- tory has been at least partially associated with that of the Great Bank. Not only does A. d. disticJius have the broadest distribution of any subspecies in the Bahamas, but it also resembles the most widespread Hispaniolan race (A. d. domini- also is the Bahaman subspecies which occurs closest geographically to Hispaniola on the Ragged Islands and Long Island. A. d. distiduis seems appropriate, both geographically and in dewlap color, as a direct Bahaman derivative from Hispaniola (Fig. 4). In the Bahamas, various sub- species have differentiated from A. d. distichus on more or less peripheral islands or island groups. Thus, biminiensis, disti- choides, and dapsilis are all essentially orange-dewlapped A. distichus with head scutellation features differing from those of A. d. distichus but occurring in the latter subspecies as casual variants. A. d. ocior, in contrast to the balance of the Bahaman races, retains a green phase and a yellow dewlap—characters which ally it directly with dominicensis. It does, however, have some "Bahaman" charac- teristics, such as the high number of median head scales. Possibly ocior reached Rum Cay and San Salvador from the G
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