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Lizards (Sauria)

   Genera


Anolis
Typical Anoles


Audantia
Stout Anoles


Chamaelinorops
Hispaniolan Anoles


Ctenonotus
Lesser Antillean Anoles


Dactyloa
Fringe-toed Anoles


Deiroptyx
Greater Antillean Anoles


Norops
Brilliant Anoles


Xiphosurus
Sword-tail Giant Anoles


Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


Biodiversity of the family Anolidae Bibliography of the family Anolidae

Anolidae

Anoles
Anolis, Saumfinger     Anoler




Contents: Endemicity:
8 genera of which 2 (25.0%) are endemic  0% 100%
450 species of which 339 (75.3%) are endemic  0% 100%

Remarks: The genera contained in this family were previously assigned to the family Iguanidae (e.g., Barbour 1937; Schmidt 1953; Smith & Taylor 1950; Peters & Donoso-Barros 1970). Family status was given by Frost & Etheridge (1989) as Polychridae, and subsequently corrected to Polychrotidae (Böhme 1990; Frost, Etheridge, Janies & Titus 2001), which both included the genus Polychrus. Subsequently, Polychrus was assigned to its own family, taking the family name along with it, thus requiring a new name for the anole family, Dactyloidae (Townsend, Mulcahy, Noonan, Sites, Kuczynski, Wiens & Reeder 2011). Most recently, Queiroz (2022) pointed out that Anolidae has nomenclatural priority over Dactyloidae.

Distribution:  North, Central, and South America, West Indies.

Reported from:
Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Bonaire, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Navassa, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saba, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, USA, Venezuela.