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Fitch's anole

Anolis fitchi Williams & Duellman, 1984

Status not recordedlizards

The fitch's anole (Anolis fitchi) is a species in the family Anolidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh about 8.97 g and reach 7.56 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Colombia.

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Quick facts about the fitch's anole

Weight
8.97 gsrc for Weight
Length
7.56 cmsrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Reproduction
Eggssrc for Reproduction
Active
By day (diurnal)src for Active
Lifestyle
Arborealsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is the fitch's anole?

FITCH'S ANOLE · LENGTH 7.56 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 7.56 cm, the recorded maximum length of the fitch's anole is about 4.4% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the fitch's anole live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The fitch's anole is listed for 1 country.

Colombia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Colombia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ReptileDB (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

Is the fitch's 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 fitch's anole classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyAnolidae
  6. genusAnolis
  7. SpeciesAnolis fitchi Williams & Duellman, 1984

Synonyms Dactyloa fitchi

Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • Napo-anoleDanish

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

Relatives of the fitch's anole

Other species in the same genus Anolis.

Green anole

Anolis carolinensis

AnolidaeNo free photo yet

Blue anole

Anolis gorgonae

AnolidaeNo free photo yet

CompareFitch's anole vs Green anoleFitch's anole vs Brown anoleFitch's anole vs Blue anoleFitch's anole vs Cuban anole

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the fitch's anole?

An adult fitch's anole weighs 8.97 g and measures 7.56 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the fitch's anole live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the fitch's anole for 1 country: Colombia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the fitch's anole?

The fitch's anole (Anolis fitchi) 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.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Fitch's anole (Anolis fitchi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/fitchs-anole

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“Fitch's anole (Anolis fitchi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/fitchs-anole.

BibTeX
@misc{fitchs_anole_2026,
  title = {Fitch's anole (Anolis fitchi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/fitchs-anole},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}