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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAnolis macrophallus WERNER 1917: 31
Anolis cupreus — PETERS et al. 1970: 52
Anolis cupreus macrophallus — FITCH et al. 29172: 16
Norops macrophallus — KÖHLER & KREUTZ 1999
Norops macrophallus — KÖHLER 2000: 63
Norops macrophallus — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops macrophallus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops macrophallus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionSC Guatemala to C El Salvador

Type locality: San José, Guatemala.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesNeotype: SMF 79035; holotype formerly Zoologisches Museum in Hamburg (ZMH); lost fide J. Hallermann, pers. comm. 20. Dec 2013. 
Diagnosis 
CommentHas been removed from the synonymy of N. cupreus by KÖHLER & KREUTZ 1999.

Species group: Norops auratus Species Group (fide Nicholson et al. 2012) 
EtymologyNamed after Greek makros (μακρός), long; large in size or degree, great + Greek phallos (φαλλός), membrum virile, phallus, or a figure thereof. [“...Schwanzbasis auffallend stark aufgetrieben...”]. 
References
  • Fitch, H. S., ECHELLE, A. A., & ECHELLE, A. E 1972. Variation in the Central American iguanid lizard Anolis cupreus, with the description of a new subspecies. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Kansas 8: 1-20
  • Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp.
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • Köhler, G. & Acevedo, M. 2004. The anoles (genus Norops) of Guatemala. I. The species of the Pacific versant below 1500 m elevation. Salamandra 40 (2): 113-140 - get paper here
  • Köhler, Günther and Jörg Kreutz. 1999. Norops macrophallus (Werner, 1917), a valid species of anole from Guatemala and El Salvador (Squamata: Sauria: Iguanidae). Herpetozoa 12 (1-2): 57-65 - get paper here
  • McCranie; James R.; Kirsten E. Nicholson; Gunther Köhler 2001. A new species of Norops (Squamata: Polychrotidae) from northwestern Honduras. Amphibia-Reptilia 22 (4): 465-473 - get paper here
  • Nicholson, K.E. 2002. Phylogenetic analysis and a test of the current infrageneric classification of Norops (beta Anolis). Herpetological Monographs 16: 93-120 - get paper here
  • NICHOLSON, KIRSTEN E.; BRIAN I. CROTHER, CRAIG GUYER & JAY M. SAVAGE 2012. It is time for a new classification of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae). Zootaxa 3477: 1–108 - get paper here
  • NICHOLSON, KIRSTEN E.; BRIAN I. CROTHER, CRAIG GUYER & JAY M. SAVAGE 2018. 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). Zootaxa 4461 (4): 573–586 - get paper here
  • Peters, James A. & Donoso-Barros, Roberto 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part II. Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 293 pp. - get paper here
  • Poe, S. 2013. 1986 Redux: New genera of anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) are unwarranted. Zootaxa 3626 (2): 295–299 - get paper here
  • Schlüter, U. 2001. Neuerungen in der Systematik der mittelamerikanischen Saumfinger der Gattung Norops seit 1996. Iguana Rundschreiben 14 (2): 19-28
  • Werner, F. 1917. Über einige neue Reptilien und einen neuen Frosch des Zoologischen Museums in Hamburg. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Hamburg, 2. Beiheft zum Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 34: 31-36. - get paper here
 
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