Polychrus
Genus of lizards
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.
01Species
- 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
02Fossil 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.
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- Polychrus acutirostris.JPG by Bolívar R. Garcete-Barrett, Attribution
- Monkey Lizard - 49220531861.jpg by J-Mass, CC BY-SA 2.0
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