Xenosaurus

Xenosaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Xenosauridae
Genus:Xenosaurus
W. Peters, 1861[1]

Xenosaurus is a genus of lizards, the only genus in the family Xenosauridae.[2]

Species

The following ten species are recognized as being valid.[2][3]

  • Xenosaurus agrenon King & F.G. Thompson, 1968
  • Xenosaurus arboreus Lynch & Smith, 1965
  • Xenosaurus fractus Nieto-Montes de Oca, Sánchez-Vega & Durán-Fuentes, 2018[4]
  • Xenosaurus grandis (Gray, 1856)
  • Xenosaurus mendozai Nieto-Montes de Oca et al., 2013
  • Xenosaurus newmanorum Taylor, 1949
  • Xenosaurus penai Pérez Ramos, de la Riva & Campbell, 2000
  • Xenosaurus phalaroantheron Nieto-Montes de Oca, Campbell & Flores-Villela, 2001
  • Xenosaurus platyceps King & Thompson, 1968
  • Xenosaurus rackhami L.C. Stuart, 1941
  • Xenosaurus rectocollaris H.M. Smith & Iverson, 1993
  • Xenosaurus sanmartinensis (Werler & Shannon, 1961)
  • Xenosaurus tzacualtipanecus Woolrich-Piña & G.R. Smith, 2012

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Xenosaurus.

References

  1. ↑ "Xenosaurus ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
  2. 1 2 "Xenosauridae" and "Xenosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ "Xenosaurus ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/diploglossa/Xenosauridae.
  4. ↑ "A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico". Zookeys. Retrieved 3 April 2018.

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).


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