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Higher TaxaAnolidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Grass Anole
Portuguese: Papa-Vento 
SynonymAnolis auratus DAUDIN 1802: 89
Anolis doré DAUDIN 1802: 89 (fide O’SHAUGHNESSY 1869: 185)
Draconura Nitzschii WIEGMANN 1834: 16
Norops auratus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 82
Draconura 12-striata BERTHOLD 1840: 62
Draconura bertholdi FITZINGER 1843: 70 (nom. subst. for Draconura 12-striata)
Laemanctus (Norops) auratus — FITZINGER 1843 (fide BOULENGER 1885)
Norops auratus — GRAY 1845: 207
Norops macrodactylus HALLOWELL 1856: 222
Norops duodecim-striatus — O’SHAUGHNESSY 1869: 191
Norops duodecimstriatus — COPE 1876: 169
Norops auratus — BOULENGER 1885: 95
Anolis rosenbergii BOULENGER 1896: 16
Norops auratus — SLEVIN 1942: 465
Anolis auratus — PETERS et al. 1970: 48
Anolis auratus auratus — HOEGMOED 1973: 99
Anolis auratus sipaliwinensis HOOGMOED 1973: 107
Anolis auratus — GORZULA & SEÑARIS 1999
Norops auratus — KÖHLER 2000: 62
Norops auratus — NICHOLSON 2002
Norops auratus — NICHOLSON et al. 2012
Norops auratus — NICHOLSON et al. 2018 
DistributionCosta Rica, Panama, Venezuela (Falcon, Cojedes),
Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana,
Brazil (Amazonas, Pará)

Type locality: “Tropical America”, restricted to Suriname by SCHMIDT 1939.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: unknown (AVILA-PIRES 1995)
Syntypes: ANSP 7801-02 [Norops macrodactylus HALLOWELL 1856] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus). Support for the genus Norops is from 57 apomorphies including nine morphological and 48 molecular ones. There are four unequivocal morphological apomorphies: mean number of ventral scales in 5% of snout-to-vent length increased (20: q to r); anterolaterally directed transverse processes on autotomic caudal vertebrae (beta condition) (49: 0 to 1); nasal overlaps lateral edge of premaxilla (77: a to z); and posterior suture of dentary usually pronged (83: a to n). There are 28 unequivocal molecular apomorphies (see Appendix II, Nicholson et al. 2012).


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CommentSynonymy after Peters et al. 1970 and Avila-Pires 1995.

Type species: Anolis auratus DAUDIN 1802 is the type species of the genus Norops WAGLER 1830. Selected as the senior synonym over Draconura Wagler, 1833 by Savage and Guyer (1991:303). Note that this genus also contains fossil species such as Norops electrum (LAZELL 1965), fide NICHOLSON et al. 2012.

Distribution: Not listed for Ecuador by TORRES-CARVAJAL 2001.

Genomics: Marc Tollis et al. (Arizona State University) presented a draft genome assembly of this species at SICB 2014 (see link).

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

Diet: a large percentage of the diet of this species (10-30%) consists of ants (Lucas et al. 2023). 
EtymologyNamed after the Latin “auratus”, meaning golden or ornamented with gold, and alludes to the prominent yellow-golden color of this species, mostly the bright lateral line.

The generic name is from the Greek norops = brilliant or gleaming with reference to the bright color of the type species and is a translation of the Latin specific name of that species. In this case, Norops is an adjective used as a noun and is in the masculine gender as indicated by the original describer (Wagler, 1830). Norops is masculine in gender. 
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