Polychrus
Genus of lizards
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::summary Genus of lizards ::
| image = Polychrus acutirostris.JPG | image_caption = Polychrus acutirostris | taxon = Polychrus | authority = Cuvier, 1817 | type_species = Draco marmoratus | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text
Polychrus is the only extant genus of polychrotid lizards in the world. Commonly called bush anoles, they are found in Central and South America, as well as nearby Trinidad and Tobago.
Polychrus means "many colored". True anoles in other genera are now placed in Dactyloidae. Polychrus is presently in the family Polychrotidae.
Species
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Monkey_Lizard_-_49220531861.jpg" caption="''[[Polychrus gutturosus]]'' seen in Tapir Valley, [[Tenorio Volcano National Park]], Costa Rica."] ::
- Polychrus acutirostris – Brazilian bush anole Spix, 1825
- Polychrus auduboni – Many-colored bush anole Hallowell, 1845
- Polychrus femoralis – Werner's bush anole Werner, 1910
- Polychrus gutturosus – Berthold's bush anole Berthold, 1845
- Polychrus jacquelinae – Jacqueline's bush anole Koch, Venegas, Garcia-Bravo, and Böhme, 2011
- Polychrus liogaster – Boulenger's bush anole Boulenger, 1908
- Polychrus marmoratus – many-colored bush anole Linnaeus, 1758
- Polychrus peruvianus – Peruvian bush anole Noble, 1924 :
Fossil history
Though species of Polychrus have an almost exclusively South American distribution today, a stem representative, Sauropithecoides charisticus, was reported from the late Eocene of North Dakota, USA.
References
References
- Schlüter 2013: Cuvier 1817, Règne Animal 2: 40. Species typica: Lacerta marmorata Linnaeus.
- (7 April 2016). "ITIS search results". [[Integrated Taxonomic Information System]].
- (7 April 2016). "ITIS Report: Polychrus – Cuvier, 1817". [[Integrated Taxonomic Information System]].
- [http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?submit=Search&exact=genus&genus=Polychrus ''Polychrus''], Reptile Database
- Smith, K.T. (2011) The evolution of mid-latitude faunas during the Eocene: Late Eocene lizards of the Medicine Pole Hills reconsidered. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 52: 3-105. https://doi.org/10.3374/014.052.0101
- Smith, K.T. (2006) A diverse new assemblage of late Eocene squamates (Reptilia) from the Chadron Formation, North Dakota, U.S.A. Palaeontologia Electronica 9.2.5A.
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