Anolis auratus, the grass anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is found in Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, and Brazil."Anolis auratus ". The Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Anolis&species=auratus
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Anolis auratus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens8
BINs3
Marker genes2
eDNA detections8
Countries2
Marker genes sequenced
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★COI-5P16S
animal barcoderibosomal
06Genome at a glanceGoaT
The complete instruction manualAnolis auratus carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Genome size2 024 459 999 bp
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Anolis auratus2.02 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin25 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
How it livedPBDB
Environmentterrestrial
Motilityactively mobile
Compositionhydroxyapatite
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type11 141 records
Wild obs. + sensor9 052
Museum / vouchered2 089
Origin
Native39
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO6 644 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy87% within 1 km
≤100 m 607≤1 km 488≤10 km 112>10 km 57
1 264 georeferenced · 7 788 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor9 052
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy22% within 1 km
≤100 m 6≤1 km 302≤10 km 948>10 km 176
1 432 georeferenced · 657 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence2 089
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions10 of 37 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Cambridge, US
1 022
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record
226
Grupo Prodecolocation not on record
110
Universidad de La Salle (La Salle)location not on record
108
CASlocation not on record
104
Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record
89
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record
83
Ann Arbor, US
67
Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS)location not on record
42
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record
38
ASNHClocation not on record
32
Washington, US
25
Berkeley, US
15
Universidad de los Llanos (UniLlanos)location not on record
13
Universidad del Quindío (UniQuindío)location not on record
11
Drummond Energy Inclocation not on record
10
Brussels, BE
10
Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record
9
München, DE
9
PROMIGAS S.A. E.S.P. (Promigas)location not on record
8
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
7
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
7
Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas - SINCHIlocation not on record
6
DC-JMClocation not on record
4
Universidad del Magdalena (UniMagdalena)location not on record
4
Universidad Industrial de Santanderlocation not on record
3
Corporación Universitaria Santa Rosa de Cabal (UNISARC)location not on record
3
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
3
IAvHlocation not on record
3
Ecopetrol S.Alocation not on record
2
Wuzhou, CN
2
Philadelphia, US
2
Frontera Energy Colombia Corplocation not on record
1
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
1
Universidad Icesi (ICESI)location not on record
1
Zacatecas, MX
1
New Haven, US
1
37 institutions · 2 082 of 2 089 vouchered records shown · 7 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA8 detections
Where the DNA of Anolis auratus was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found8
Studies independent surveys2
Countries2
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 8 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 countries0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median25.7 °C 25.0–27.3
Seasonal swing summer↔winter1.10 °C
Max temp (day)29.1 °C 28.1–31.7
Min temp (night)23.3 °C 22.6–23.7
Precipitation86.5 mm/mo 43.1–137
Air humidity63.7 % 58.1–68.8
Moisture balance-94.8 mm/mo -133–-24.7
Vapour deficit1,189 Pa 990–1,534
Wind speed3.60 m/s 2.70–6.10
Cloud cover15.0 % 12.2–30.7
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 4 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility11 141 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI8 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗