weird find in my cham cage

[CanadianJackson]

I was watering my pygmy chams today and noticed this little fella running around on the screen. I'm guessing its a brown anole, its tiny about an inch and half long. There must've been an egg in one of the plants I have in there. Guess I'm breeding lizards now that I don't even know I have!! lol


http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/4242MVC-010F-med.JPG

[latazyo]

unreal

[Siretsap]

Lolol goot thing it's a lizard and not a black widdow or something else!

[CDN-Cresties]

Thats a awesome find!

[meow_mix450]

AHAHAH!!!!! lets hope it didnt eat one of you little chams:p Do you know wut kind of lizard it is? a baslisk?

Meow

[CanadianJackson]

I was more worried about them eating him.

[Matt_K]

Originally posted by meow_mix450
Do you know wut kind of lizard it is? a baslisk?

Meow

Originally posted by CanadianJackson
I'm guessing its a brown anole, its tiny about an inch and half long.

[kidchameleon]

thats really funny that you found an anole in your cham's cage haha

[panther_dude]

well guys i think meow is right. It is deffinatly not an anole its snout is too short and it head is to wide. Anoles have a long slender head. And I have never seen one with that sort of marking. More of a water dragon or baslisk from the short and wide head. Also the markings are very much like a waterdragon. . The hind legs have really long slender toes as well like a water dragon or a baslisk would.

Thats my guys from a top view. If I could get aside picture of its face I would be able to tell you forsure. I have own both water dragons and anoles, plus also babysat a baslisk.lol.

So a side veiw of the face would help alot.
It is always good to get a pic at every angle you can when trying to identify a specific species. Top, bottom, both sides, base of the tail. ect.

[dank7oo]

That is insane :)

Jason

[Bartman]

Why am I never lucky like that to find something cool running around a cage :p Great find! Id like to know forsure what it ends up being.

[DragnDrop]

It's a hatchling Brown Anole, Anolis sagrei.
Lots of info and pictures at: The Brown Anole (http://invasions.bio.utk.edu/invaders/sagrei.html)

Green and brown anoles and their eggs are often found in plants imported from Florida and a few other southern states where they are found. Even house geckos can pop out of plants imported from down there.

There's no way it would be a water dragon or basilisk. Having their eggs survive the trip would be just short of a miracle. Comparing head and body size and shape doesn't work in this case since it's a hatchling. Body proportions are way out of whack with adults at this stage in their lives.

[karmeleon]

I agree. It is likely a hatchling brown anole. I had a small anole for over a year that came in a house plant. It was about 2 inches in total length, brown with a white vertebral stripe. It was a full grown female that laid unfertilized eggs every once and a while. I never could ID the exact species.

[CanadianJackson]

I knew it had to be species of anole, its way to small to be a baby baslisk. its gobbled down a couple pin head crickets for me already and seems healthy. I'm just glad I found it in there before one of my chams spotted it and had it for lunch. lol

[meow_mix450]

haha it looks big in that pic

Meow

[panther_dude]

ya my bad lol sure looks like one though lol