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Monkey Lizards
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Monkey Lizards

Polychrotidae

The Polychrotinae subfamily (sometimes misclassified as the now invalid Polychrotidae family) of iguanian lizards contains the living genus Polychrus (commonly called bush anoles) and the extinct genus Afairiguana. The Polychrotidae family was once thought to encompass all anoles, including those in the genus Anolis (which are now included in the family Dactyloidae). However, recent studies of the evolutionary relationships of anoles based on molecular information suggest that Polychrus is not closely related to Anolis. It is...

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1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 8 known species

Monkey Lizards

genusPolychrus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 36355.