Polychrus

Polychrus is the only extant genus of polychrotid lizards in the world.[2] Commonly called bush anoles, they are found in Central and South America, as well as nearby Trinidad and Tobago.

Polychrus
Polychrus acutirostris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Polychrotidae
Genus:	Polychrus Cuvier, 1817[1]
Species
See text

Polychrus means "many colored". True anoles in other genera are now placed in Dactyloidae. Polychrus is presently in the family Polychrotidae.[3][2]

Species

Polychrus gutturosus seen in Tapir Valley, Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica.

• Polychrus acutirostris Spix, 1825 – Brazilian bush anole
• Polychrus auduboni Hallowell, 1845 – Many-colored bush anole
• Polychrus femoralis Werner, 1910 – Werner's bush anole
• Polychrus gutturosus Berthold, 1845 – Berthold's bush anole
• Polychrus jacquelinae Koch, Venegas, Garcia-Bravo, and Böhme, 2011 - Jacquelin's bush anole
• Polychrus liogaster Boulenger, 1908 – Boulenger's bush anole
• Polychrus marmoratus Linnaeus, 1758 – Many-colored Bush Anole, Common monkey lizard
• Polychrus peruvianus Noble, 1924 - Peruvian bush anole

[4]

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.[5][6]

References

1. Schlüter 2013: Cuvier 1817, Règne Animal 2: 40. Species typica: Lacerta marmorata Linnaeus.
2. "ITIS Report: Polychrus – Cuvier, 1817". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
3. "ITIS search results". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
4. Polychrus, Reptile Database
5. 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
6. 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.

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.