• Source: Polychrus

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



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






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.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Polychrus
• Polychrus acutirostris
• Polychrus marmoratus
• Iguanomorpha
• Polychrus gutturosus
• Polychrus jacquelinae
• Polychrus peruvianus
• Polychrus auduboni
• Polychrus femoralis
• Polychrus liogaster