Anolis lemurinus
Cope, 1861 · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Anolis lemurinus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 183 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI32 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics33 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Anolis lemurinus, the ghost anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia."Anolis lemurinus' ". The Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Anolis&species=lemurinus
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology3
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 lemurinus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ 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.
The complete instruction manual Anolis lemurinus 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
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).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
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
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.
Record type3 183 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions21 of 31 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Ann Arbor, US | 247 |
| Cambridge, US | 223 |
| Tapachula, MX | 211 |
| CASlocation not on record | 130 |
| Washington, US | 129 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 108 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 106 |
| Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record | 103 |
| Universidad del Valle de Guatemalalocation not on record | 99 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 83 |
| Berkeley, US | 76 |
| Los Angeles, US | 49 |
| Mexico City, MX | 44 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 41 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 34 |
| University of Texas at Arlingtonlocation not on record | 31 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 30 |
| Chicago, US | 27 |
| Champaign, US | 26 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 17 |
| Mexico City, MX | 13 |
| Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 9 |
| Toronto, CA | 9 |
| EL PASO, US | 6 |
| New Haven, US | 4 |
| München, DE | 4 |
| Zacatecas, MX | 3 |
| South Kensington, GB | 3 |
| Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record | 2 |
| Durango, MX | 1 |
| ASNHClocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Anolis lemurinus 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
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
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.