Table 5. Data used to test the Species Recognition hypothesis.
Species | Community | Relative Size | Pattern | Color |
A. allogus | Cuba | 1.065 | Striped | yellow & red |
A. alutaceus | Cuba | 0.396 | Solid | yellow |
A. angusticeps | Cuba | −0.206 | Solid | pink |
A. homolechis | Cuba | 0.71 | Solid | white/gray |
A. loysiana | Cuba | 0.863 | Unique | yellow & red |
A. luteogularis | Cuba | −0.49 | Solid | orange/pink/yellow |
A. mestrei | Cuba | 0.925 | Unique | red, yellow, & white |
A. porcatus | Cuba | −0.388 | Solid | red |
A. sagrei | Cuba | 0.222 | Marginal | red & yellow |
A. vermiculatus | Cuba | −1.407 | – | – |
A. aliniger | Hispaniola | −0.402 | Solid | green |
A. chlorocyanus | Hispaniola | −0.242 | Lateral | gray & black, greenish-yellow & black |
A. christophei | Hispaniola | 0.481 | Striped | purple & pink |
A. distichus | Hispaniola | −0.279 | Solid/Marginal/Spotted/Basal | yellow, orange/red & yellow/red & yellow/red & yellow |
A. etheridgei | Hispaniola | −0.125 | Solid | white/gray |
A. insolitus | Hispaniola | 0.914 | Solid | yellow/orange/brown |
A. semilineatus | Hispaniola | 0.361 | Solid | white |
A. garmani | Jamaica | 0.086 | Solid | yellow |
A. grahami | Jamaica | −0.024 | Marginal | orange & yellow |
A. lineatopus | Jamaica | 0.704 | Marginal/Lateral/Unique/Spotted | orange & gray/gray & orange/green, white, orange/yellow & orange |
A. opalinus | Jamaica | 0.466 | Unique | red & yellow |
A. cristatellus | Puerto Rico | 0.036 | Marginal/Solid/Basal | greenish-yellow & red/greenish-yellow/yellow |
A. cuvieri | Puerto Rico | 0.233 | Solid | yellow |
A. evermanni | Puerto Rico | −0.127 | Solid | yellow/green |
A. gundlachi | Puerto Rico | 0.425 | Solid | brown/yellow |
A. krugi | Puerto Rico | 0.225 | Solid | yellow |
A. occultus | Puerto Rico | 0.169 | Lateral | gray & red |
A. poncensis | Puerto Rico | −0.948 | Solid | white/yellow |
A. pulchellus | Puerto Rico | 0.05 | Basal | red & purple |
A. stratulus | Puerto Rico | 0.338 | Solid | red/orange |
Not included in this analysis due to missing data were A. cybotes (Hispaniola), and A. ricordii (Hispaniola). Patterns and colors are as in Table 3.