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title: "Pug-nosed Anole"
description: "Anolis capito — Reptilien. Anolis capito, the bighead anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/pug-nosed-anole
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pug-nosed Anole

> Anolis capito — Reptilien. Anolis capito, the bighead anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae.

- Scientific name: *Anolis capito*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptilien)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald), `jungle` (Dschungel)
- iNaturalist observations: 1578
- Wikidata: [Q3343944](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3343944)
- iNaturalist taxon: [116402](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/116402)

## Names

- en: Pug-nosed Anole
- es: Anolis jaspeado

## Countries with the most observations

CR (1196), PA (107), NI (50), HN (36), MX (34), BZ (16), GT (11)

## Summary

Anolis capito, the bighead anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Although they are active all day, it seems that these enigmatic anoles spend the majority of their time in the shade, where they reside low on trees in a shady rain forest. The mean temperature of the body is 28.8 +/- 0.5 degrees Celsius, meaning that it is 1.3 degrees Celsius higher than the substrate and 1.7 degrees Celsius higher than the air. Compared to males, females are larger and reach sexual maturity at a larger SVL.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anolis_capito

## Photo

![Pug-nosed Anole](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pug-nosed-anole/medium.jpg)

Photo: Leo Arias · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67370848

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pug-nosed-anole?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).