Xenosaurus is a genus of lizards; it is the only extant genus in the family Xenosauridae, with 14 species currently recognized.[2] Also known as knob-scaled lizards, they can found in southwestern Tamaulipas and eastern Guerrero in Mexico.[3] These lizards are known to feed on a variety of crawling and flying insects. This genus mostly eats orthopterans, coleopterans (beetles), dipterans, and myriapods.[4]
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| Xenosaurus platyceps | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Xenosauridae |
| Genus: | Xenosaurus W. Peters, 1861[1] |
Species
editThe following 14 species are recognized as being valid.[2][5]
- Xenosaurus agrenon King & F.G. Thompson, 1968
- Xenosaurus arboreus Lynch & Smith, 1965
- Xenosaurus fractus Nieto-Montes de Oca, Sánchez-Vega & Durán-Fuentes, 2018[6]
- Xenosaurus grandis (Gray, 1856)
- Xenosaurus manipulus Nieto-Montes de Oca, Castresana-Villanueva, Canseco-Márquez, & Campbell, 2022
- Xenosaurus mendozai Nieto-Montes de Oca et al., 2013
- Xenosaurus newmanorum Taylor, 1949
- Xenosaurus penai Pérez Ramos, de la Riva & Campbell, 2000
- Xenosaurus phalaroanthereon 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 - San Martin knob-scaled lizard
- Xenosaurus tzacualtipantecus 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
edit- ^ "Xenosaurus ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
- ^ a b "Xenosauridae" and "Xenosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Nieto-Montes de Oca A, Barley AJ, Meza-Lázaro RN, García-Vázquez UO, Zamora-Abrego JG, Thomson RC, Leaché AD (January 2017). "Phylogenomics and species delimitation in the knob-scaled lizards of the genus Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) using ddRADseq data reveal a substantial underestimation of diversity". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 106: 241–253. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.001. PMID 27720785.
- ^ Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Ballinger RE (2003). "Diets of Three Species of Knob-Scaled Lizards (Genus Xenosaurus) from México". The Southwestern Naturalist. 48 (1): 119–122. doi:10.1894/0038-4909(2003)048<0119:DOTSOK>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3672749.
- ^ "Xenosaurus". Dahms Tierleben (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ^ Nieto-Montes De Oca, Adrián; Sánchez-Vega, Helder; Durán-Fuentes, Itzel (2018). "A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico". ZooKeys (737): 141–160. Bibcode:2018ZooK..737..141N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.737.15095. PMC 5904495. PMID 29674877. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
Further reading
edit- 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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