Anolis limifrons
Cope, 1862 · speciesAt a glance
Sources7 archives
Databases and archives Anolis limifrons's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 748 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI29 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics40 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & 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 limifrons, also known commonly as the slender anole or the border anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is native to Central America.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology3
Life cycle & reproduction4
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 limifrons 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 limifrons 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.
2n 401×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database
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 type5 748 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 institutions15 of 27 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Wuzhou, CN | 640 |
| Cambridge, US | 592 |
| Los Angeles, US | 281 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 206 |
| Washington, US | 144 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 117 |
| Berkeley, US | 114 |
| ASNHClocation not on record | 69 |
| Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 33 |
| Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collectionlocation not on record | 33 |
| München, DE | 12 |
| University of Texas at Arlingtonlocation not on record | 12 |
| CASlocation not on record | 10 |
| New Haven, US | 6 |
| Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record | 5 |
| Toronto, CA | 3 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 3 |
| Southeastern Louisiana University, Vertebrate Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Champaign, US | 2 |
| Mexico City, MX | 2 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Brussels, BE | 2 |
| Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record | 2 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 1 |
| Mexico City, MX | 1 |
| Circulo Herpetologico de Panamalocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Anolis limifrons 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.