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Genera
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Dactyloidae
 
Anoles
Anolis, Saumfinger
Anoler
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Contents:
(as of 31st December, 2022) | Endemicity:
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8 genera of which 2 (25.0%) are endemic | 0%  100%
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450 species of which 339 (75.3%) are endemic | 0%  100%
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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.
The name Anolidae will be implemented herein later, pending consensus regarding Queiroz' (2022) opinion.
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.
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