Polychrus
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Through South America
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
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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.
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