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title: "Banded Anole"
description: "Anolis stratulus — Reptielen. Anolis stratulus is a moderately-sized species of anole (US: ) (family Dactyloidae) found in Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/banded-anole
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Banded Anole

> Anolis stratulus — Reptielen. Anolis stratulus is a moderately-sized species of anole (US:  ) (family Dactyloidae) found in Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

- Scientific name: *Anolis stratulus*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptielen)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 1368
- Wikidata: [Q784124](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q784124)
- iNaturalist taxon: [36606](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/36606)

## Names

- en: Banded Anole
- es: Lagartijo manchado

## Countries with the most observations

PR (1122), VI (131), VG (45)

## Summary

Anolis stratulus is a moderately-sized species of anole (US:  ) (family Dactyloidae) found in Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands. It is a gray-colored lizard spotted with brown markings. It is arboreal, usually found positioned on tree bark on branches in the canopies of forest trees, where in some areas of Puerto Rico it can be incredibly abundant, with tens of thousands of the lizards being present per hectare.
It is locally known as the lagartijo manchando in Puerto Rico. Names which have been coined for it in English are spotted anole, Puerto Rican spotted anole (in Puerto…

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

## Photo

![Banded Anole](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/banded-anole/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andrew Holle · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/347465146

## Machine access

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