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It's time to play Name! That! Lizard! - SoCal_to_Hawaii - 01-08-2019
Does anyone know what kind of lizard this is:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robyn529/45756404165/
You can zoom in on the photo.
I took the picture at my house in lower HPP and I have not seen this critter before. He was maybe 4-5 inches long (but the tip of his tail seemed to be missing), was definitely much beefier than an anole, and had a blunt nose.
RE: It's time to play Name! That! Lizard! - Royall - 01-08-2019
I've seen those at Rozett's Nursery. Don't know anything more about them though. Maybe call Rozett's
RE: It's time to play Name! That! Lizard! - Anxious Messiah - 01-08-2019
Brown Anole. They are almost everywhere in Hawaii
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RE: It's time to play Name! That! Lizard! - ElysianWort - 01-08-2019
The anole are quite common in many places on the big island. I've seen them here in the acres for years. Not in the early 80s when I first moved here but a bit after. They puff up their necks when chilling out (which are pink), they will bite and clamp on as a defense (and I've seen kids take advantage of that and wear them on earlobes as lizard earrings) It is green and will turn brown to camouflage or if it feels threatened or stressed but the anole in that picture has a spotty mottled skin that looks different from any I have ever seen. Maybe common elsewhere on the big island though.
RE: It's time to play Name! That! Lizard! - bystander - 01-09-2019
It's not just an anole but a brown anole. These are different from the green ones. They don't change color and are aggressive towards other lizards. I posted about these back in 2014.
http://punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?whichpage=0.6&TOPIC_ID=18925
RE: It's time to play Name! That! Lizard! - SoCal_to_Hawaii - 01-09-2019
Thanks all. I don't think it is a brown anole (see this link: https://backwaterreptilesblog.com/green-anole-vs-brown-anole/). It did not have a pointy snout and was quite thick through the body and base of its tail. It looked more like the curly tail lizard mentioned in bystander's post (http://www.wildflorida.com/wildlife/lizards/Curlytail_Lizard.php), but as I mentioned the tip of this one's tail appeared to be missing.
RE: It's time to play Name! That! Lizard! - Jimbo2017 - 01-09-2019
Definately Brown Anole. Dr. Mautz at UHH said the range is expanding on Big Island. They really took over dry areas of Oahu...
http://www.anoleannals.org/2011/12/19/brown-anoles-on-hawaii-and-battle-of-the-intercontinental-convergents/
Mauka Hilo-side
RE: It's time to play Name! That! Lizard! - ElysianWort - 01-09-2019
SoCal, I'm looking at your original picture you gave us in your first post here and the lizard looks much more like a brown anole than the curly tailed lizard.
RE: It's time to play Name! That! Lizard! - SoCal_to_Hawaii - 01-09-2019
I've seen the lizards from the picture in Jimbo's link and agree I have brown anole. The picture I posted was not the same thing, unless it had some type of 'giant' gene.
RE: It's time to play Name! That! Lizard! - Missey - 01-10-2019
Can we still NAME THAT LIZARD? How about “Ollie”? It works for either a boy or a girl lizard.
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