Anolis oxylophus

A moderately large, short-legged chocolate brown semiaquatic anole having a pair of cream-colored lateral stripes. The iris is coppery and the male dewlap is uniform burnt Orange.

Total length to 243 mm, males (adults 59 to 85 mm in standard length) larger than females (adults 56 to 68 mm), tail moderate, 60 to 65% of total length. Upper surface dark brown with an olive cast, dorsum usually marked with dark bands, as are limbs and tail; a distinct cream-colored stripe runs from above shoulder posteriorly about two-thirds length of body, venter cream, often with yellow (or orangish in adult males) wash; iris brown.

It is a riparian species found along moderate-sized, fairly rapid streams in lowland rain forest, gallery forest, and the lower portions of the Premontane Wet Forest and Rainforest zones.

Anolis oxylophus can be find in humid lowlands and Premontane slopes of Atlantic versant eastern Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, and extreme northwestern Panama; in the Pacific slope in galllery forest in lowlands of northwestern Costa Rica and in Cordillera Costeña, near San Isidro de El General, Puntarenas Provincia, in the southwest (20-1200 m).