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''Polychrus'' is the only extant
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of polychrotid lizards in the world. Commonly called bush anoles, they are found in Central and
South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
, as well as nearby
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean, comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with several List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, smaller i ...
. ''Polychrus'' means "many colored". True anoles in other genera are now placed in
Dactyloidae Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles (singular anole ) and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay. Instead of treating it as a family, some authorities prefer to treat ...
. ''Polychrus'' is presently in the family
Polychrotidae The Polychrotidae family (sometimes classified as the Polychrotinae subfamily instead) of iguanian lizards contains the living genus '' Polychrus'' (commonly called bush anoles) and the extinct genus '' Afairiguana''. The family Polychrotidae was ...
.


Species

*''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.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.


References


Further reading

*Berthold, A. A. 1845. "''Über verschiedene neue oder seltene Reptilien aus Neu-Granada und Crustaceen aus China''". ''Nachr. Georg-Augustus-Univ. und königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen'' 3: 37-48. *Boulenger, G. A. 1908. "''Descriptions of new South American reptiles''". ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist''., Ser. 8, 1 (1): 111−115. *Koch, C., Venegas, P.J., Garcia-Bravo, A. & Böhme, W. 2011. "''A new bush anole (Iguanidae: Polychrotinae: Polychrus) from the upper Marañon basin, Peru, with a redescription of Polychrus peruvianus (Noble, 1924) and additional information on P. gutturosus Berthold, 1845''". ''ZooKeys'' 141: 79−107. *Linnaeus, C. 1758. "''Systema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymus, locis''. Ed. 10. Tomus I. – Salvius, Stockholm, 824 pp. *Noble, G. K. 1924. "''New lizards from northwestern Peru''". ''Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History'' 5: 107−113. *Schlüter, U. 2013. "''Buntleguane - Lebensweise, Pflege, Fortpflanzung''". ''KUS-Verlag, Rheinstetten'', 78 pp. (A Monograph on ''Polychrus'') *Spix, J. B. von 1825. "''Animalia nova sive species novae lacertarum,quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis''". ''F. S. Hübschmann'', München, pp. 1−26. *Werner, F. 1910. "''Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. II. Eidechsen''". ''Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg'' 27 (2): 1−46. {{Taxonbar, from=Q3023338 Polychrotidae Lizard genera Lizards of Central America Lizards of the Caribbean Lizards of South America Taxa named by Georges Cuvier