Editing Anolis (section)

{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Early Miocene|present}}
| image = Anole.jpg
| image_caption = Green anole (''[[Anolis carolinensis]]'')
| taxon = Anolis
| authority = [[François Marie Daudin|Daudin]], 1802
| type_species = ''[[Anolis punctatus]]''
| type_species_authority = [[François Marie Daudin|Daudin]], 1802
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''circa'' 425 spp., see [[#Species|text]]
}}

'''''Anolis''''' is a [[genus]] of [[anole]]s ({{IPAc-en|US|audio=en-us-anole.ogg|ə|ˈ|n|oʊ|.|l|i|z|}}), [[iguania]]n lizards in the family [[Dactyloidae]], native to the [[Americas]]. With more than 425 species,<ref name=ReptileDatabaseFamily>{{cite web |author1=Uetz, P. |author2=Hallermann, J. | year=2018 |url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?taxon=Dactyloidae&exact%5B0%5D=taxon&submit=Search | title=Dactyloidae |publisher=[[The Reptile Database]] |access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref> it represents the world's most species-rich [[amniote]] [[tetrapod]] genus, although many of these have been proposed to be moved to other genera, in which case only about 45 ''Anolis'' species remain.<ref name=Nicholson2012>{{Cite journal|author1=Nicholson, Kirsten E. |author2=Crother, Brian I. |author3=Guyer, Craig |author4=Savage, Jay M. |year=2012|title=It is time for a new classification of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3477 |number=1|pages=1–108, page 38 |url=http://www.southeastern.edu/acad_research/depts/biol/faculty/pdf/nicholson_et_al2012.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130193500/http://www.southeastern.edu/acad_research/depts/biol/faculty/pdf/nicholson_et_al2012.pdf |archive-date=30 January 2016|url-status=live|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3477.1.1 |doi-access=free |ref={{sfnref|Nicholson|2012}}}} [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/z03477p108f.pdf Abstract]</ref><ref name=Nicholson2018>{{cite journal| author1=Nicholson, K.A. | author2=B.I. Crother | author3=C. Guyer | author4=J.M. Savage | year=2018 | title=Translating a clade based classification into one that is valid under the international code of zoological nomenclature: the case of the lizards of the family Dactyloidae (Order Squamata) | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4461 | issue=4 | pages=573–586 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4461.4.7 | pmid=30314068 | s2cid=52975031 }}</ref> Previously, it was classified under the family Polychrotidae that contained all the anoles, as well as ''[[Polychrus]]'', but recent studies place it in the Dactyloidae.<ref name=Nicholson2012/>