It is the northwestern member of a group of tropical terrestrial crabs. The Sonoran land crab (Pseudothelphusa sonorensis) lives in moist rocky canyon bottoms in tropical deciduous forest. The clouded anole ( Anolis nebulosus, above) with its orange dewlap lives in the tropical deciduous forests of western Mexico as far north as the Tepoca area in east-central Sonora. The false chameleon ( Anolis carolinensis) of the southeastern United States is well known for its rapid color changes from green to brown. The anoles are a diverse group of tropical lizards that have been considered a subfamily in the Iguanidae or in the family Polychridae). The larger lilac-crowned parrot ( Amazona finschi) pictured here is less common but more commonly seen in tropical deciduous forest. The white-fronted parrot ( Amazona albifrons) is a small species than is locally very common in coastal thornscrub and open tropical deciduous forest. There are two species of Amazon parrots in southern Sonora. The black-throated magpie jay ( Calocitta colliei) with its long tail and raucous cry is a conspicuous bird in tropical deciduous forest in southern Sonora. Research in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Eastern Sonora, Mexico: Tropical Deciduous Forest Fauna
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