Xenosaurus sanmartinensis

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Neoanguimorpha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Anguimorpha Infraordo: Neoanguimorpha

Xenosaurus sanmartinensis Werler & Shannon, 1961

Holotype: UIMNH 80687 (formerly FAS 10540), adult ♀.
Type locality: “from the crater of Volcan San Martin, Veracruz, Mexico, elevation 5,000 feet”.

Xenosaurus rackhami sanmartinensis Werler & Shannon, 1961: 128 [original combination, as subspecies of rackhami]
Xenosaurus grandis sanmartinensis — Lynch & Smith, 1965: 171 [subsequent combination, as subspecies of grandis]
Xenosaurus sanmartinensis — Johnson et al. 2007; Nieto-Montes de Oca, Sánchez-Vega & Durán-Fuentes, 2018 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

Werler, J.E. & Shannon, F.A. 1961. Two new lizards (genera Abronia and Xenosaurus) from the Los Tuxtlas Range of Veracruz, Mexico. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 64(2): 123–132. DOI: 10.2307/3626931 JSTOR

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.

English: San Martin Knob-scaled Lizard
español: Xenosauro del Volcán San Martin