Xenosaurus
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Xenosaurus is a genus of lizards; it is the only extant genus in the family Xenosauridae, with 14 species currently recognized.[1] Also known as knob-scaled lizards, they can found in southwestern Tamaulipas and eastern Guerrero in Mexico.[2] These lizards are known to feed on a variety of crawling and flying insects. This genus mostly eats orthopterans, coleopterans (beetles), dipterans, and myriapods.[3]
Species
The following 14 species are recognized as being valid.[1][4]
- Xenosaurus agrenon King & F.G. Thompson, 1968Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus arboreus Lynch & Smith, 1965Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus fractus Nieto-Montes de Oca, Sánchez-Vega & Durán-Fuentes, 2018Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- Xenosaurus grandis (Gray, 1856)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus manipulus Nieto-Montes de Oca, Castresana-Villanueva, Canseco-Márquez, & Campbell, 2022Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus mendozai Nieto-Montes de Oca et al., 2013Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus newmanorum Taylor, 1949Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus penai Pérez Ramos, de la Riva & Campbell, 2000Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus phalaroanthereon Nieto-Montes de Oca, Campbell & Flores-Villela, 2001Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus platyceps King & Thompson, 1968Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus rackhami L.C. Stuart, 1941Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus rectocollaris H.M. Smith & Iverson, 1993Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Xenosaurus sanmartinensis Werler & Shannon, 1961Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". - San Martin knob-scaled lizard
- Xenosaurus tzacualtipantecus Woolrich-Piña & G.R. Smith, 2012Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Xenosaurus.
References
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Further reading
- Peters W (1861). "Eine neue Gattung von Eidechsen, Xenosaurus fasciatus, aus Mexico [= A new genus of lizards, Xenosaurus fasciatus, from Mexico]". Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie zu Berlin 1861: 453–454. (Xenosaurus, new genus). (in German).
External links
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- Genus Xenosaurus at The Reptile Database
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