Polychrotidae
{{Short description|Family of lizards}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Eocene - present, {{fossil range|52|0}}
| image = Polychrus acutirostris.JPG
| image_caption = Polychrus acutirostris
| taxon = Polychrotidae
| authority = Frost & Etheridge, 1989
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
{{extinct}}Afairiguana
}}
The Polychrotidae family{{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 |access-date=2016-04-07}} (sometimes classified as the Polychrotinae subfamily instead) of iguanian lizards contains the living genus Polychrus (commonly called bush anoles) and the extinct genus Afairiguana.{{cite journal |last=Conrad |first=J. L. |author2=Rieppel, O. |author3= Grande, L. |year=2007 |title=A Green River (Eocene) polychrotid (Squamata: Reptilia) and a re-examination of iguanian systematics |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=81 |issue=6 |pages=1365–1373 |doi=10.1666/06-005R.1 |bibcode=2007JPal...81.1365C |s2cid=128611592 }} The family Polychrotidae was once thought to encompass all anoles, including those in the genus Anolis (which are now included in the family Dactyloidae). Studies of the evolutionary relationships of anoles based on molecular information has shown that Polychrus is not closely related to Anolis, but instead closer to Hoplocercidae.{{cite journal| author1=Townsend | author2=Mulcahy | author3=Noonan | author4=Sites Jr | author5=Kuczynski | author6=Wiens | author7=Reeder | year=2011 | title=Phylogeny of iguanian lizards inferred from 29 nuclear loci, and a comparison of concatenated and species-tree approaches for an ancient, rapid radiation | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=61 | issue=2 | pages=363–380 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2011.07.008 | pmid=21787873 }}{{cite journal| author1=Pyron | author2=Burbrink | author3=Wiens | year=2013 | title=A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes | journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume=13 | page=93 | doi=10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 | pmc=3682911 | pmid=23627680 | doi-access=free | bibcode=2013BMCEE..13...93P }} It is therefore not part of Dactyloidae and instead is treated as the family, Polychrotidae.
References
{{Commons category|Polychrotidae}}
{{Wikispecies|Polychrotidae}}
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{{Squamata families}}
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Category:Extant Ypresian first appearances
Category:Extant Eocene first appearances
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