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Watts' anole

Anolis wattsii Boulenger, 1894

Status not recordedlizards

The watts' anole (Anolis wattsii) is a species in the family Anolidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh about 1.71 g and reach 4.3 cm in length.

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Quick facts about the watts' anole

Weight
1.71 gsrc for Weight
Length
4.3 cmsrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Carnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
desert, shrublandsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
1src for Young per litter or clutch
Reproduction
Eggssrc for Reproduction
Active
By day (diurnal)src for Active
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

How big is the watts' anole?

WATTS' ANOLE · LENGTH 4.3 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 4.3 cm, the recorded maximum length of the watts' anole is about 2.5% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the watts' anole live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the watts' anole as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Trinidad & Tobago

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the watts' anole endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the watts' anole classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyAnolidae
  6. genusAnolis
  7. SpeciesAnolis wattsii Boulenger, 1894

Synonyms Anolis alter

Other names and names in other languages (3)
  • Antigua bank bush anoleEnglish
  • Watts's anoleEnglish
  • Antigua-buskanoleDanish

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidataWikidata

Relatives of the watts' anole

Other species in the same genus Anolis.

Green anole

Anolis carolinensis

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Blue anole

Anolis gorgonae

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CompareWatts' anole vs Green anoleWatts' anole vs Brown anoleWatts' anole vs Blue anoleWatts' anole vs Cuban anole

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the watts' anole?

An adult watts' anole weighs 1.71 g and measures 4.3 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the watts' anole an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the watts' anole as introduced in 1 country: Trinidad & Tobago, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the watts' anole?

The watts' anole (Anolis wattsii) belongs to the family Anolidae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

  • Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
    Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
  • Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
    Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group.
  • ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
    Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4
  • SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
    Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b
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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Watts' anole (Anolis wattsii). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/anolis-wattsii

MLA

“Watts' anole (Anolis wattsii).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/anolis-wattsii.

BibTeX
@misc{anolis_wattsii_2026,
  title = {Watts' anole (Anolis wattsii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/anolis-wattsii},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}