Xenosaurus

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

Xenosaurus is a genus of lizards; it is the only extant genus in the family Xenosauridae, with 14 species recognized. ^[2] Also known commonly as knob-scaled lizards, species of Xenosaurus can found in Mexico ^[3] and Guatemala. 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]

Species

The following 14 species are recognized as being valid. ^{[2] [5]}

• Xenosaurus agrenon King & F.G. Thompson, 1968
• Xenosaurus arboreus Lynch & H.M. 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, L. 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

1. "Xenosaurus ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
2. "Xenosauridae" and "Xenosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. Nieto-Montes de Oca A, Barley AJ, Meza-Lázaro RN, García-Vázquez UO, Zamora-Abrego JG, Thomson R, Leaché AD (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.
4. 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.
5. "Xenosaurus". Dahms Tierleben (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-09.
6. 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

• 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 Berlin1861: 453–454. (Xenosaurus, new genus). (in German).

External links

• Genus Xenosaurus at The Reptile Database