{{Short description|Genus of lizards}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Polychrus acutirostris.JPG | image_caption = ''Polychrus acutirostris'' | taxon = Polychrus | authority = Cuvier, 1817<ref>Schlüter 2013: Cuvier 1817, Règne Animal 2: 40. Species typica: Lacerta marmorata Linnaeus.</ref> | type_species = ''Draco marmoratus'' | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Polychrus''''' is the only extant genus of polychrotid lizards in the world.<ref name="itis1" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ITIS search results |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=981294 |publisher=Integrated Taxonomic Information System |date=7 April 2016 |accessdate=2016-04-07}}</ref><ref name="itis1">{{Cite web |title=ITIS Report: Polychrus – Cuvier, 1817 |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=208868 |publisher=Integrated Taxonomic Information System |date=7 April 2016 |accessdate=2016-04-07}}</ref>
==Species== [[File:Monkey Lizard - 49220531861.jpg|thumb|''Polychrus gutturosus'' seen in Tapir Valley, Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica.]] *''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> :<ref>[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?submit=Search&exact=genus&genus=Polychrus ''Polychrus''], Reptile Database</ref>
==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.<ref>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</ref><ref>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.</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== {{Commons}} {{Wikispecies}} *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.
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