Brown anole
Scientific name: Anolis sagrei Duméril & Bibron, 1837
Overview
The brown anole, also known commonly as the Bahaman anole, Cuban brown anole, and de la Sagra's anole, is a species of lizard in the family Anolidae. The species is native to Cuba, the Bahamas, Little Cayman, Cayman Brac, Jamaica, the Swan Islands, the Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, and the Caribbean coast of Guatemala and Honduras. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, via the importation and exportation of plants in pots in which brown anoles laid eggs in the soil, and is now found in Florida and other regions of the United States including southern Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Hawaii, North Carolina, and Southern California. It has also been introduced to other Caribbean islands, Mexico, Singapore, and Taiwan.
From the Wikipedia article “Brown anole”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Where it lives
The Catalogue of Life records it in: Mexico (S Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Chiapas, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Jalisco, Sonora, Nayarit), Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica (introduced), Cuba, Jamaica, Grenada.
Common names
Also known in English as Bahaman brown anole [ordinatus], Cuban brown anole, Mayan Coastal Anole [mayensis].
Names in other languages (8)
- Chinese
- 沙氏變色蜥
- French
- Norops sagrei
- German
- Bahama-Anolis, Bahamaanolis, Bahamaanolis [ordinatus]
- Japanese
- ブラウンアノール
- Persian
- آنول قهوهای
- Portuguese
- Papa-vento-pardo-do-caribe
- Russian
- Коричневый анолис
- Spanish
- Abaniquillo Costero Maya, Abaniquillo Costero Maya [mayensis]
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names and range.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: The Reptile Database.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q790586, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Brown anole”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026