. "Norops"@en . . . . . "Norops is the proposed generic name for 150 lizard species traditionally classified in the genus Anolis (family, Iguanidae). Guyer and Savage (1986) applied this name to a group that Etheridge (1959) designated the \"beta anoles\" on the basis of skeletal characters that distinguished them from all other anole species (i.e., \"the alpha anoles\"). Although Norops is clearly a distinct, monophyletic group, it renders the \"alpha anoles\" paraphyletic."@en . . . . . .