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Excerpts from Jim Conrad's
Naturalist Newsletter
from the August 2, 2018 Newsletter issued from Rancho Regenesis in the woods ±4kms west of Ek Balam Ruins, central Yucatán, MÉXICO
A WHITISH SILKY ANOLE
This week on a Manila Palm trunk in the garden another whitish Silky turned up, shown below:
He didn't want to move at all, so a nice head close-up was possible, shown below:
That darkish bar extending across the top of the head from eye to eye seems to be fairly constant within the species, even as other features come and go. In pale individuals, the short lines radiating from around the eyes also seem consistently to turn up.
*UPDATE: At first I thought this was a Silky Anole, Anolis sericeus. However, in 2024 when I upload the pictures on this page to iNaturalist, user "pedro_nahuat," an active and published herpetologist, recognized this as the Yucatan Silky Anole, ANOLIS USTUS, not appearing in literature available to me in 2018. This species is endemic just to the Yucatan Peninsula.