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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements1 literature sources3 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF538 records
Genome at a glanceGoaT2n = 36
01Narrative
Anolis bonairensis, the Bonaire anole or Ruthven's anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is found in Bonaire and in Las Aves Archipelago, Venezuela,
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 bonairensis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
06Genome at a glanceGoaT
The complete instruction manualAnolis bonairensis 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.
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.
Chromosomes2n = 36 n = 18
Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references
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
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type538 records
Wild obs. + sensor260
Museum / vouchered278
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO392 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 accuracy61% within 1 km
≤100 m 137≤1 km 4>10 km 90
231 georeferenced · 29 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor260
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 accuracy12% within 1 km
≤100 m 17≤1 km 14≤10 km 56>10 km 180
267 georeferenced · 11 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence278
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 institutions3 of 5 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
216
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
25
Ann Arbor, US
23
CASlocation not on record
11
Berkeley, US
3
5 institutions · 278 of 278 vouchered records shown
