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Anolis brasiliensis VANZOLINI & WILLIAMS, 1970

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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Brazilian Anole
Portuguese: Calango-Bandeira, Papa-Vento 
SynonymAnolis chrysolepis brasiliensis VANZOLINI & WILLIAMS 1970
Anolis chrysolepis — AMARAL 1937: 1722
Norops nitens brasiliensis — SAVAGE & GUYER 1991: 366
Anolis nitens brasiliensis — AVILA-PIRES 1995
Anolis nitens brasiliensis — VITT et al. 2002
Anolis brasiliensis — BORGES-NOJOSA & CARAMASCHI 2003
Anolis brasiliensis — LANGSTROTH 2005
Anolis nitens brasiliensis — Cardozo-Ribeiro et al. 2008
Anolis nitens brasiliensis — MARQUES et al. 2009
Anolis brasiliensis — D’ANGIOLELLA et al. 2011
Norops brasiliensis — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops brasiliensis — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionBrazil (Pará, Tocantins, Piauí, Maranhão, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Distrito Federal, Ceará)

Type locality: Mato Grosso do Norte, Barra do Tapirapes, Brazil.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MZUSP 10319 
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CommentDistribution: A. (nitens) brasiliensis probably also in Bolivia (fide LANGSTROTH 2005).

Species group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012)

Fonseca et al. 2024 used a convolutional neural network (CNN) to show that geographic distance is the sole predictor of genetic variation in N. brasiliensis. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
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