Xenosaurus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neoanguimorpha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Anguimorpha Infraordo: Neoanguimorpha

Familia: Xenosauridae
Genus: Xenosaurus
Species (14): X. agrenon – X. arboreus – X. fractus – X. grandis – X. manipulus – X. mendozai – X. newmanorum – X. penai – X. phalaroanthereon – X. platyceps – X. rackhami – X. rectocollaris – X. sanmartinensis – X. tzacualtipantecus

Name

Xenosaurus Peters, 1861: 453

Type species: Xenosaurus fasciatus Peters, 1861, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Peters, W. 1861. Eine neue Gattung von Eidechsen, Xenosaurus fasciatus aus Mexico. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1861: 453–454. BHL

Additional references

Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Flores-Villela, O. & Campbell, J.A. 2001. A new species of Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico. Herpetologica 57(1): 32–47. JSTOR Reference page.
Woolrich-Piña, G.A. & Smith, G.R. 2012. A New Species of Xenosaurus from the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico. Herpetologica 68(4): 551–559. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-12-00018 Reference page.
Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., García-Vázquez, U.O., Zúñiga-Vega, J.J. & Schmidt-Ballardo, W. 2013. A new species of Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) from the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve of Querétaro, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 84(2): 485–498. DOI: 10.7550/rmb.35733 Reference page.
Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Barley, A.J., Meza-Lázaro, R.N., García-Vázquez, U.O., Zamora-Abrego, J.G., Thomson, R.C. & Leaché, A.D. 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 Reference page.
Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Sánchez-Vega, H. & Durán-Fuentes, I. 2018. A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico. ZooKeys 737: 141–160. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.737.15095. Reference page.
Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Castresana-Villanueva, N., Canseco-Márquez, L. & Campbell, J.A. 2022. A New Species of Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) from the Sierra de Juárez of Oaxaca, Mexico. Herpetologica 78(1): 40–50. DOI: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-21-00041.1 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Xenosaurus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 April 2018.

Vernacular names

English: Knob-scaled Lizards