Polychrus is the only extant genus of polychrotid lizards in the world.

Species

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  • Polychrus acutirostris – Brazilian bush anole <small>Spix, 1825</small>
  • Polychrus auduboni – Many-colored bush anole <small>Hallowell, 1845</small>
  • Polychrus femoralis – Werner's bush anole <small>Werner, 1910</small>
  • Polychrus gutturosus – Berthold's bush anole <small>Berthold, 1845</small>
  • Polychrus jacquelinae – Jacqueline's bush anole <small>Koch, Venegas, Garcia-Bravo, and Böhme, 2011</small>
  • Polychrus liogaster – Boulenger's bush anole <small>Boulenger, 1908</small>
  • Polychrus marmoratus – many-colored bush anole <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small>
  • Polychrus peruvianus – Peruvian bush anole <small>Noble, 1924</small>

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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.